{"id":4690,"date":"2013-09-27T17:06:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T17:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4690"},"modified":"2013-09-27T17:06:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T17:06:47","slug":"chinas-unusual-satellite-trio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4690","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s unusual satellite trio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 19th,\u00a0 China launched three satellites &#8211; Shijian 15, Chuangxin 3 and Shiyan 7. Since then they seem to be demonstrating formation flying, satellite servicing and\/or anti-satellite techniques but it&#8217;s not really clear what they are doing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zarya.info\/blog\/?p=1547&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=chinese-tag-team-launch-2013-037-update\" target=\"_d\">Chinese Tag Team (Launch 2013-037) \u2013 Update &#8211; Zarya.com <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/22707-china-satellite-activities-perplex-experts.html\" target=\"_d\">Mysterious Actions of Chinese Satellites Have Experts Guessing &#8211; Space.com &#8211; Sept.9.13<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zarya.info\/blog\/?p=1396\" target=\"_d\">Chinese Satellites Playing Tag\u2026..\u2026..Now There Are Three!! &#8211; Zarya.com &#8211; Aug.17.13<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 19th,\u00a0 China launched three satellites &#8211; Shijian 15, Chuangxin 3 and Shiyan 7. Since then they seem to be demonstrating formation flying, satellite servicing and\/or anti-satellite techniques but it&#8217;s not really clear what they are doing: Chinese Tag Team (Launch 2013-037) \u2013 Update &#8211; Zarya.com Mysterious Actions of Chinese Satellites Have Experts Guessing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4690\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China&#8217;s unusual satellite trio<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,15,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-space","category-in-space-infrastructure","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1dE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9375,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9375","url_meta":{"origin":4690,"position":0},"title":"Video: Chinese satellites orbit in formation","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 5, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Astrophotographer\u00a0Thierry Legault\u00a0posted a\u00a0video of his observations of three Chinese \"Yaogan\" satellites flying in formation :\u00a0Watch Formation-Flying Chinese \u2018Yaogan\u2019 Satellites Slip Silently Through the Stars - Universe Today\u00a0- http:\/\/youtu.be\/TuPU04FiDOM","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Chinese space&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Chinese space","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=79"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/TuPU04FiDOM\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5873,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5873","url_meta":{"origin":4690,"position":1},"title":"Chinese Beidou &#038; European Galileo satellite navigation coming on line","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 1, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Global satellite navigation has joined weather observation and communications via satellites as a space based service that is taken so totally for granted, most of the public don't even know that space is involved. 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