{"id":235691,"date":"2025-12-16T12:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/235691\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T12:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:23:13","slug":"china-launches-new-satellite-xinhua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/235691\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches new satellite-Xinhua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"husmTV2qjMkWX8ha9V\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Y6bUnoAxe3nDothj.jpg\" data-material-id=\"25121602565864\" data-name=\"20251216c838805cdd514da18c369febcd64266f.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Long March-4B rocket carrying Ziyuan III 04 satellite blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China&#8217;s Shanxi Province, on Dec. 16, 2025. The satellite was launched at 11:17 a.m. Beijing time. (Photo by Wang Yapeng\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n<p>TAIYUAN, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) &#8212; China sent a new satellite into space on Tuesday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern province of Shanxi.<\/p>\n<p>The Ziyuan III 04 satellite was launched by a Long March-4B rocket at 11:17 a.m. Beijing time, according to the center.<\/p>\n<p>It was the 617th flight mission of the Long March rocket series. \u25a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"YklCh54wvXweFxJScB\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LQUjqvI9QGrmDtFK.jpg\" data-material-id=\"25121607208914\" data-name=\"20251216f5c8ab3fb871428c9380158d7a1e315d.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Long March-4B rocket carrying Ziyuan III 04 satellite blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China&#8217;s Shanxi Province, on Dec. 16, 2025. The satellite was launched at 11:17 a.m. Beijing time. (Photo by Wang Yapeng\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"c92ziqlOFP525DvFQi\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/XLLVAFlpfATgM5ie.jpg\" data-material-id=\"25121602567990\" data-name=\"20251216c098068bdd8543c6a4a57992f476bdd1.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Long March-4B rocket carrying Ziyuan III 04 satellite blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China&#8217;s Shanxi Province, on Dec. 16, 2025. The satellite was launched at 11:17 a.m. Beijing time. (Photo by Wang Yapeng\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"X6J1scnFRPbDDa7RMc\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3ADbvXgoSzRCOJBS.jpg\" data-material-id=\"25121605379420\" data-name=\"20251216eb55e80ca8b04a8c98602d5c98720594.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Long March-4B rocket carrying Ziyuan III 04 satellite blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China&#8217;s Shanxi Province, on Dec. 16, 2025. The satellite was launched at 11:17 a.m. Beijing time. (Photo by Wang Yapeng\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Long March-4B rocket carrying Ziyuan III 04 satellite blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270],"tags":[381,18,19,17,3021,133,451],"class_list":{"0":"post-235691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-satellite","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-space"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115729230391412663","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}