{"id":144292,"date":"2026-01-16T01:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T01:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144292"},"modified":"2026-01-16T01:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T01:00:14","slug":"could-chinas-yaogan-47-satellite-have-a-lens-as-wide-as-the-hubble-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144292","title":{"rendered":"Could China\u2019s Yaogan-47 satellite have a lens as wide as the Hubble Telescope?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostOne of China\u2019s latest Earth observation satellites operating in low orbit could feature an optical aperture at a two-metre scale with \u201cglobal leading\u201d remote sensing capabilities, according to a China Science Daily report on Thursday last week.<br \/>\nThe report refers to the Yaogan-47 satellite, which was launched aboard a Long March 4B carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre on December 9.<br \/>\nFor comparison, the Hubble Space Telescope and likely the US KH-11 spy satellite have main&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3340036\/could-chinas-yaogan-47-satellite-have-lens-wide-hubble-telescope?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 PostOne of China\u2019s latest Earth observation satellites operating in low orbit could feature an optical aperture at a two-metre scale with \u201cglobal leading\u201d remote&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\/144292"}],"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=144292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}