{"id":149433,"date":"2026-04-10T08:02:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149433"},"modified":"2026-04-10T08:02:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:02:37","slug":"is-china-about-to-launch-a-rocket-from-south-china-sea-international-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149433","title":{"rendered":"Is China about to launch a rocket from South China Sea international waters?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina plans to launch its first rocket from open waters in the South China Sea, in a display of a more flexible, long-range maritime launch capability.<br \/>\nThe 31-metre (102-foot) tall, solid-fuelled Jielong-3 is expected to lift off at 7.30pm on Saturday from the Dong Fang Hang Tian Gang, a converted barge operating in international waters, according to a leaked schedule circulating on Chinese social media.<br \/>\nBeijing claims sovereignty over almost all the islands and rock features in the South China&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3349638\/china-about-launch-rocket-south-china-sea-international-waters?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 plans to launch its first rocket from open waters in the South China Sea, in a display of a more flexible, long-range maritime&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\/149433"}],"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=149433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}