{"id":252249,"date":"2025-12-26T11:46:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T11:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/252249\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T11:46:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T11:46:18","slug":"chinas-long-march-8a-rocket-launches-internet-satellites-xinhua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/252249\/","title":{"rendered":"China’s Long March-8A rocket launches internet satellites-Xinhua"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Long March-8A carrier rocket carrying a group of internet satellites blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in south China’s Hainan Province, Dec. 26, 2025. (Photo by Liu Jianqiu\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n

WENCHANG, Hainan, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) — China launched a Long March-8A carrier rocket on Friday in the southern island province of Hainan, sending a group of internet satellites into space.<\/p>\n

The rocket lifted off at 7:26 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site. It successfully placed the payloads, the 17th group of low-orbit internet satellites, into preset orbit. \u25a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Long March-8A carrier rocket carrying a group of internet satellites blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270],"tags":[381,18,19,17,6144,133,451],"class_list":{"0":"post-252249","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-satellites","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-space"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115785707592463975","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252249","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=252249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}