{"id":135567,"date":"2025-08-31T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=135567"},"modified":"2025-08-31T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T10:00:12","slug":"china-launches-tiny-mexican-satellites-in-rare-north-american-rocket-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=135567","title":{"rendered":"China launches tiny Mexican satellites in rare North American rocket contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostMexico has become the second country in North America to send satellites into orbit using a Chinese rocket \u2013 more than half a decade after Canada blazed the trail.<br \/>\nTwo satellites from ThumbSat, a start-up based in Tijuana, just across the border from San Diego, were among a batch of seven launched into sun-synchronous orbit earlier this month by Beijing-based CAS Space on board its solid-fuel Kinetica-1 rocket.<br \/>\nThumbSat hailed the launch of its femtosatellites \u2013 each weighing less than 100 grams&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3323810\/china-launches-tiny-mexican-satellites-rare-north-american-rocket-contract?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 PostMexico has become the second country in North America to send satellites into orbit using a Chinese rocket \u2013 more than half a decade&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\/135567"}],"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=135567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}