{"id":645646,"date":"2025-12-21T05:37:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T05:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/645646\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T05:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T05:37:21","slug":"china-launches-new-communication-technology-test-satellite-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/645646\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches new communication technology test satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"754231\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" alt=\"A Long March-5 rocket carrying a new communication technology test satellite blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in south China's Hainan Province, Dec. 20, 2025. Launched at 8:30 p.m. (Beijing Time), the satellite has successfully entered its planned orbit. It will be mainly used to carry out multi-band and high-speed communication technology validation tests. The launch marks the 618th mission by the Long March carrier rocket series. (Photo by Du Xinxin\/Xinhua)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/306304ca-4953-4a1a-a0f9-bf2596fc9fd9.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"picture\" style=\"font-size: 13px; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-top: 3px; color: #999\">A Long March-5 rocket carrying a new communication technology test satellite blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in south China&#8217;s Hainan Province, Dec. 20, 2025. Launched at 8:30 p.m. (Beijing Time), the satellite has successfully entered its planned orbit. It will be mainly used to carry out multi-band and high-speed communication technology validation tests. The launch marks the 618th mission by the Long March carrier rocket series. (Photo by Du Xinxin\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"754232\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" alt=\"A Long March-5 rocket carrying a new communication technology test satellite blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in south China's Hainan Province, Dec. 20, 2025. Launched at 8:30 p.m. (Beijing Time), the satellite has successfully entered its planned orbit. It will be mainly used to carry out multi-band and high-speed communication technology validation tests. The launch marks the 618th mission by the Long March carrier rocket series. (Photo by Du Xinxin\/Xinhua)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/5170f674-b98d-4665-85e6-a845fe4c4f54.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"picture\" style=\"font-size: 13px; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-top: 3px; color: #999\">A Long March-5 rocket carrying a new communication technology test satellite blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in south China&#8217;s Hainan Province, Dec. 20, 2025. Launched at 8:30 p.m. (Beijing Time), the satellite has successfully entered its planned orbit. It will be mainly used to carry out multi-band and high-speed communication technology validation tests. The launch marks the 618th mission by the Long March carrier rocket series. (Photo by Du Xinxin\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"754234\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" alt=\"A Long March-5 rocket carrying a new communication technology test satellite blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in south China's Hainan Province, Dec. 20, 2025. Launched at 8:30 p.m. (Beijing Time), the satellite has successfully entered its planned orbit. It will be mainly used to carry out multi-band and high-speed communication technology validation tests. The launch marks the 618th mission by the Long March carrier rocket series. (Photo by Du Xinxin\/Xinhua)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3281bd3b-0425-4742-a2b7-f0a159c8b59c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"picture\" style=\"font-size: 13px; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-top: 3px; color: #999\">A Long March-5 rocket carrying a new communication technology test satellite blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in south China&#8217;s Hainan Province, Dec. 20, 2025. Launched at 8:30 p.m. (Beijing Time), the satellite has successfully entered its planned orbit. It will be mainly used to carry out multi-band and high-speed communication technology validation tests. The launch marks the 618th mission by the Long March carrier rocket series. (Photo by Du Xinxin\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"754233\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" alt=\"A Long March-5 rocket carrying a new communication technology test satellite blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in south China's Hainan Province, Dec. 20, 2025. Launched at 8:30 p.m. (Beijing Time), the satellite has successfully entered its planned orbit. It will be mainly used to carry out multi-band and high-speed communication technology validation tests. The launch marks the 618th mission by the Long March carrier rocket series. (Photo by Du Xinxin\/Xinhua)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/291ad36f-1a64-4b5c-a614-90b9ece11085.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"picture\" style=\"font-size: 13px; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-top: 3px; color: #999\">A Long March-5 rocket carrying a new communication technology test satellite blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in south China&#8217;s Hainan Province, Dec. 20, 2025. Launched at 8:30 p.m. (Beijing Time), the satellite has successfully entered its planned orbit. It will be mainly used to carry out multi-band and high-speed communication technology validation tests. The launch marks the 618th mission by the Long March carrier rocket series. (Photo by Du Xinxin\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n<p>China on Saturday sent a new communication technology test satellite into space from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in south China&#8217;s Hainan Province.<\/p>\n<p>Launched at 8:30 p.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a Long March-5 rocket, the satellite has successfully entered its planned orbit.<\/p>\n<p>It will be mainly used to carry out multi-band and high-speed communication technology validation tests.<\/p>\n<p>The launch marks the 618th mission by the Long March carrier rocket series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Long March-5 rocket carrying a new communication technology test satellite blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[70,413,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-645646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115755945690852263","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}