{"id":48703,"date":"2023-08-21T11:08:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T11:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/china-launches-new-satellite-for-earth-observation\/"},"modified":"2023-08-21T11:29:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T11:29:40","slug":"china-launches-new-satellite-for-earth-observation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/china-launches-new-satellite-for-earth-observation\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches new satellite for Earth observation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The satellite, Gaofen-12 04, was launched by a Long March-4C carrier rocket at 1:45 a.m. (Beijing Time) and has entered the planned orbit successfully.<\/p>\n<p>It will be used in a variety of fields, including land surveys, urban planning, road network design, crop yield estimation and disaster relief.<\/p>\n<p>The launch marks the 484th flight mission of the Long March series carrier rockets.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-59080\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/1-2.jpg.png\" alt=\"A Long March-4C carrier rocket carrying a new Earth observation satellite blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Aug. 21, 2023. The satellite, Gaofen-12 04, was launched at 1:45 a.m. (Beijing Time) and has entered the planned orbit successfully. (Photo by Wang Jiangbo\/Xinhua)\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-59081\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/4-2.jpg.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-59079\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/2-2.jpg.png\" alt=\"A Long March-4C carrier rocket carrying a new Earth observation satellite blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Aug. 21, 2023. The satellite, Gaofen-12 04, was launched at 1:45 a.m. (Beijing Time) and has entered the planned orbit successfully. (Photo by Wang Jiangbo\/Xinhua)\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-59082\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/3-2.jpg.png\" alt=\"A Long March-4C carrier rocket carrying a new Earth observation satellite blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Aug. 21, 2023. The satellite, Gaofen-12 04, was launched at 1:45 a.m. (Beijing Time) and has entered the planned orbit successfully. (Photo by Wang Jiangbo\/Xinhua)\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{China sent a new Earth observation satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Monday.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000059078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-48703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000059078,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1.jpg.png","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/png","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1.jpg.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1.jpg.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1.jpg.png","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1.jpg.png","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1.jpg.png","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000059078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48703"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=48703"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=48703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}