{"id":862113,"date":"2026-09-27T05:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T05:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/862113\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T05:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T05:12:09","slug":"claims-chinas-beidou-satellite-was-refuelled-in-orbit-could-change-space-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/862113\/","title":{"rendered":"Claims China\u2019s BeiDou satellite was refuelled in orbit could change space race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/china-science?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chinese researchers<\/a> appear to have revealed a previously unknown satellite-to-satellite refuelling operation in high Earth orbit, putting the country at the forefront of a technology that could reshape the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/space?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">space race.<\/a><\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In a paper undergoing peer review for the Journal of Deep Space Exploration, the team said China had \u201csuccessfully provided room-temperature propellant refuelling for a high-orbit BeiDou satellite for the first time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The researchers from the state-funded Deep Space Exploration Laboratory gave no details about the operation.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They said it had given China valuable experience but emphasised the need to develop technologies for transferring extremely low-temperature propellants, which offered better performance for large spacecraft and deep-space missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese researchers appear to have revealed a previously unknown satellite-to-satellite refuelling operation in high Earth orbit, putting the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[83608,363824,72801,144,6122,52726,2808,3800,363823,37469,236182,79,239988,33670,193,363825,7575],"class_list":["post-862113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-beidou","tag-beidou-g","tag-cas","tag-china","tag-chinese-academy-of-sciences","tag-deep-space-exploration-laboratory","tag-florida","tag-gps","tag-international-journal-of-aerospace-engineering","tag-jonathan-mcdowell","tag-journal-of-deep-space-exploration","tag-science","tag-shijian","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-space","tag-us-global-positioning-system","tag-us-space-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}