{"id":55908,"date":"2021-10-19T10:24:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T10:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=55908"},"modified":"2022-09-12T14:24:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T08:54:33","slug":"china-launched-1st-solar-exploration-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/china-launched-1st-solar-exploration-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"China launched 1st Solar Exploration Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>China<\/strong>&nbsp;has successfully launched its 1st solar exploration satellite into space from the&nbsp;<strong>Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center<\/strong>&nbsp;in northern Shanxi Province. The satellite was launched aboard a&nbsp;Long March-2D rocket&nbsp;and entered its planned orbit successfully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The satellite was named \u2018Xihe\u2019 (Xihe is the goddess of the sun who created the calendar in ancient Chinese mythology), also known as the&nbsp;<strong>Chinese H\u03b1 Solar Explorer (CHASE).<\/strong>&nbsp;The satellite has been developed by the&nbsp;<strong>China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said the mission is expected to provide scientists with the first high-quality observation data of the source area of a solar eruption and will improve China&#8217;s research capability in solar physics, adding that it is very meaningful to the nation&#8217;s space exploration and satellite technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&nbsp;has successfully launched its 1st solar exploration satellite into space from the&nbsp;Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center&nbsp;in northern Shanxi Province. The satellite was launched aboard a&nbsp;Long March-2D rocket&nbsp;and entered its planned orbit successfully. The satellite was named \u2018Xihe\u2019 (Xihe is the goddess of the sun who created the calendar in ancient Chinese mythology), also known as the&nbsp;Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":55909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1918],"tags":[447,58,2104,868],"class_list":["post-55908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-october-2021","tag-china","tag-international-current-affairs","tag-solar-exploration-satellite","tag-space-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55908","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\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115432,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55908\/revisions\/115432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}