{"id":1212463,"date":"2023-12-15T20:20:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T01:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1212463"},"modified":"2023-12-15T20:20:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T01:20:32","slug":"a-top-secret-chinese-spy-satellite-just-launched-on-a-supersized-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1212463","title":{"rendered":"A top-secret Chinese spy satellite just launched on a supersized rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/lm5yaogan41-800x878-1.jpe\" alt=\"A Long March 5 rocket, the largest launcher in China's inventory, deployed a classified Chinese military satellite into orbit Friday.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/lm5yaogan41.jpeg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1152\" data-width=\"1050\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> A Long March 5 rocket, the largest launcher in China&#8217;s inventory, deployed a classified Chinese military satellite into orbit Friday. (credit: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"caption-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mp.weixin.qq.com\/s\/VXRX5pyKpXmbF39lX53ofg\">CASC<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>China&#8217;s largest rocket apparently wasn&#8217;t big enough to launch the country&#8217;s newest spy satellite, so engineers gave the rocket an upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>The Long March 5 launcher flew with a payload fairing some 20 feet (6.2 meters) taller than its usual nose cone when it took off on Friday with a Chinese military spy satellite. This made the Long March 5, with a height of some 200 feet, the tallest rocket China has ever flown.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to the intrigue, the Chinese government claimed the spacecraft aboard the Long March 5 rocket, named Yaogan-41, is a high-altitude optical remote sensing satellite. These types of surveillance satellites usually fly much closer to Earth to obtain the sharpest images possible of an adversary&#8217;s military forces and strategically important sites.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1991612#p3\">Read 22 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1991612&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1991612\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A top-secret Chinese spy satellite just launched on a supersized rocket<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ A Long March 5 rocket, the largest launcher in China&#8217;s inventory, deployed a classified Chinese military satellite into orbit Friday. (credit: CASC) China&#8217;s largest rocket apparently wasn&#8217;t big enough to launch the country&#8217;s newest spy satellite, so engineers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1212463\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1212464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1212463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1212463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1212464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1212463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1212463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1212463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}