{"id":38878,"date":"2021-03-17T05:24:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T05:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=38878"},"modified":"2021-03-17T05:44:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T05:44:12","slug":"japan-hold-myanmars-first-satellite-on-space-station-after-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/japan-hold-myanmars-first-satellite-on-space-station-after-coup\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan holds Myanmar&#8217;s first satellite on space station after coup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Myanmar\u2019s first satellite built by Japan\u2019s Hokkaido University in a joint project with Myanmar\u2019s government-funded Myanmar Aerospace Engineering University (MAEU) with the cost of $15 million is being held on board the International Space Station following the Myanmar coup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the first of a set of two 50 kg microsatellites equipped with cameras designed to monitor agriculture and fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Human rights activists and some officials in Japan worry that those cameras could be used for military purposes by the junta that seized power in Myanmar on Feb. 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The satellite was launched by NASA on Feb 20 as a small part of a large and varied payload of supplies to the International Space Station 400 km (250 miles) above the earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has since been kept by JAXA inside Japan\u2019s Kibo experiment module. JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi is one of the seven crew members now on board the space station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myanmar\u2019s first satellite built by Japan\u2019s Hokkaido University in a joint project with Myanmar\u2019s government-funded Myanmar Aerospace Engineering University (MAEU) with the cost of $15 million is being held on board the International Space Station following the Myanmar coup. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 It is the first of a set of two 50 kg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":38879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1400],"tags":[58],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-38878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-march-2021","tag-international-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38885,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38878\/revisions\/38885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38878"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=38878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}