{"id":132127,"date":"2025-07-02T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132127"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:00:09","slug":"china-could-be-about-to-attempt-a-landmark-satellite-refuelling-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132127","title":{"rendered":"China could be about to attempt a landmark satellite refuelling test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s first satellite-to-satellite refuelling test appears to be imminent after a second round of close-proximity operations between two probes in high orbit on Monday.<br \/>\nThe landmark Chinese mission will be one of the most ambitious attempts at autonomous satellite servicing in geostationary orbit, which rival the United States has yet to achieve.<br \/>\nOn Monday, the Shijian-21 and Shijian-25 spacecraft \u2013 both orbiting at an altitude of 35,786km (22,236 miles) above the equator \u2013 came within&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3316605\/china-could-be-about-attempt-landmark-satellite-refuelling-test?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s first satellite-to-satellite refuelling test appears to be imminent after a second round of close-proximity operations between two probes in high orbit on Monday.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132127"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}