China launched a Long March-8A carrier rocket on Saturday in the southern island province of Hainan, sending a group of internet satellites into space, reported Xinhua.<\/p>\n
The rocket lifted off at 3:53 p.m. from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site. It successfully placed the payloads, the 14th group of low-orbit internet satellites, into preset orbit.<\/p>\n
Developed by the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, the Long March-8A rocket is 50.5 meters long with a takeoff weight of 371 tonnes. It is capable of carrying up to 7 tonnes to a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 700 km.<\/p>\n
The rocket completed its maiden flight in February this year and has since entered a high-density launch mode.<\/p>\n
This mission marks the first time the Long March-8 series rocket has switched its primary propellant from conventional petroleum-based rocket kerosene to coal-based rocket kerosene.<\/p>\n
The new fuel is environmentally friendly, easy to store and transport, and more cost-effective. Its performance remains stable and reliable as petroleum-based rocket kerosene, which can establish a ”green power” foundation for subsequent high-frequency launch missions.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s mission is also the fifth flight of the Long March-8A rocket and the 612th launch of the Long March series of rockets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China launched a Long March-8A carrier rocket on Saturday in the southern island province of Hainan, sending a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[87],"tags":[1595,1592,157,1557,1572,1554,1531,1522,1579,1532,1536,1583,1534,1580,1605,1576,1562,1596,1590,1601,1543,1610,1541,1613,1599,1521,1520,33,1577,31,1538,1542,1586,1539,1548,30,1593,1540,1564,46,104,1549,1537,1544,1571,1525,1551,1602,1575,34,148,1552,425,1573,1560,665,1569,1589,991,1559,1584,1587,1523,1598,1568,1578,1604,1567,1558,1519,1566,1608,1607,1609,1533,1588,1606,1611,952,1570,1529,1530,1582,1528,1057,1550,1526,1527,1553,1555,1612,1547,1597,1524,1535,1614,1600,1591,1561,1585,1556,32,67,551,91,92,1594,1581,1603,662,1574,1545,859,1565,1546,1563,1149],"class_list":["post-109637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-100-years-of-independence","tag-7-up","tag-aamulehti","tag-alexandar-stubb","tag-anne-barner","tag-antti-rinne","tag-arcktikum","tag-arctic","tag-arctic-business-forum","tag-arctic-circle","tag-arctic-light-hotel","tag-asylum-seekers","tag-aurora-borealis","tag-baltic-sea","tag-bus","tag-business-oulu","tag-centre-party","tag-christmas","tag-cococola","tag-cumlus-hotel","tag-daily-finland","tag-denmark-nordea-bank","tag-df","tag-dunsken-bank","tag-easter-holiday","tag-english-language-news-from-finland","tag-english-news-from-finland","tag-fi","tag-finavia","tag-finland","tag-finland-times","tag-finland-today","tag-finlandia","tag-finlandtimes","tag-finnair","tag-finnish","tag-finnish-government","tag-ftimes","tag-green-league","tag-helsingin-sanomat","tag-helsinki","tag-helsinki-airport","tag-helsinki-times","tag-helsinki-university","tag-hridi-hautala","tag-ice","tag-ice-hockey","tag-ikea","tag-ilta-lehti","tag-ilta-sanomat","tag-internet","tag-juha-sipila","tag-jyvaskyla","tag-kaleva","tag-kansallinen-kokoomus","tag-kemi","tag-kittila","tag-koff","tag-kokkola","tag-kokoomus","tag-lapin-kansa","tag-lapin-kulta","tag-lapland","tag-lapland-hotels","tag-levi","tag-malmi","tag-metro","tag-microsoft","tag-national-coalition-party","tag-news-from-finland","tag-nokia","tag-norden","tag-nordic","tag-norsen","tag-northern-light","tag-olvi","tag-onnibus","tag-op-bank","tag-oulu","tag-petteri-orpo","tag-poro","tag-porocup","tag-refugees","tag-rendeer","tag-rovaniemi","tag-rovaniemi-airport","tag-santa","tag-santa-claus","tag-sauli-niinisto","tag-sdp","tag-shampoo-bank","tag-silja-lines","tag-ski-holiday","tag-snow","tag-snow-hotel","tag-snowmobile","tag-sokos-hotel","tag-sprite","tag-suomen-keskusta","tag-suomen-kuvalehti","tag-suomen-sosialidemokraattinen-puolue","tag-suomi","tag-sweden","tag-tampere","tag-technology","tag-teknologia","tag-tom-of-finland","tag-tornio","tag-tram","tag-turku","tag-turun-sanomat","tag-university-of-finland","tag-vaasa","tag-vihrea-liitto","tag-viking-lines","tag-ville-matti-niinisto","tag-yle"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}