{"id":11578,"date":"2026-06-15T10:57:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T05:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=11578"},"modified":"2026-06-15T10:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T05:58:08","slug":"china-launches-8-satellites-aboard-commercial-lijian-1-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/sciencetech\/china-launches-8-satellites-aboard-commercial-lijian-1-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches 8 satellites aboard commercial Lijian-1 rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China on Monday launched eight satellites into orbit aboard a Lijian-1 carrier rocket, state media reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rocket lifted off from a commercial space innovation pilot zone in northwestern China and successfully deployed the satellites into their planned orbit, state-run Xinhua News reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mission was the 13th flight of the Lijian-1 rocket series, one of China&#8217;s key commercial launch vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lijian-1 was developed by CAS Space, a commercial spaceflight company established by the Institute of Mechanics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China on Monday launched eight satellites into orbit aboard a Lijian-1 carrier rocket, state media reported. The rocket lifted off from a commercial space innovation pilot zone in northwestern China and successfully deployed the satellites into their planned orbit, state-run Xinhua News reported. The mission was the 13th flight of the Lijian-1 rocket series, one [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sciencetech","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}