{"id":123608,"date":"2025-10-24T06:04:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/china-launches-new-communication-technology-test-satellite\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T06:04:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:04:49","slug":"china-launches-new-communication-technology-test-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/china-launches-new-communication-technology-test-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches new communication technology test satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BEIJING, China, Oct 24 \u2014 China launched a Long March 5 carrier rocket on Thursday evening to deploy a technology demonstration satellite into space, according to the State-owned conglomerate China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the nation\u2019s dominant space contractor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The company said in a news release that the rocket blasted off at 10:30 pm from a coastal service tower in the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province and soon placed the Communications Technology Demonstrator 20 satellite in its intended orbit, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>One of the world\u2019s most powerful operational rockets, the Long March 5 model was designed by the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology in Beijing, the nation\u2019s major rocket maker and a CASC subsidiary.<\/p>\n<p>Compared with the conventional Long March 5 configuration, the one used on Thursday had an extended fairing \u2014 the top structure on a rocket containing satellites or other payloads \u2014 18.5 meters tall.<\/p>\n<p>The fairings on typical Long March 5 rockets were about 12.3 meters tall.<\/p>\n<p>The extended Long March 5 model has an overall height of 63.2 meters, making it the tallest-ever rocket type in China.<\/p>\n<p>The Communications Technology Demonstrator 20 was built by another CASC subsidiary, China Academy of Space Technology, and is tasked with verifying multi-band high-speed satellite communications technologies, according to the company.<\/p>\n<p>The mission was China\u2019s 66th space launch this year and the 602nd flight of the Long March family, the nation\u2019s main launch vehicle fleet.<\/p>\n<p>For more visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/china\/society\">China Daily<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For subscriptions on news from China Daily, or inquiries, please contact China Daily Africa Ltd on +254 20 6920900 or write to enquiries@chinadailyafrica.com<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, China, Oct 24 \u2014 China launched a Long March 5 carrier rocket on Thursday evening to deploy a technology demonstration satellite into space, according to the State-owned conglomerate China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the nation\u2019s dominant space contractor. The company said in a news release that the rocket blasted off at 10:30 pm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}