{"id":157071,"date":"2026-09-06T08:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T08:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157071"},"modified":"2026-09-06T08:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T08:47:12","slug":"worlds-most-powerful-lightning-chasing-satellite-joins-china-nepal-flood-relief-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157071","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s most powerful lightning-chasing satellite joins China-Nepal flood relief efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina is using the world\u2019s most powerful geostationary weather satellite to track severe thunderstorms over Nepal and deliver real-time intelligence as the two countries continue search and rescue operations following last month\u2019s devastating glacier collapse.<br \/>\nThe Fengyun\u20114C satellite \u2013 launched in December 2025 and now positioned 36,000km (22,000 miles) above the equator \u2013 carries a Lightning Mapping Imager (LMI) that captures 500 frames per second, sifting through 30 gigabits of data every&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3366535\/worlds-most-powerful-lightning-chasing-satellite-joins-china-nepal-flood-relief-efforts?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 is using the world\u2019s most powerful geostationary weather satellite to track severe thunderstorms over Nepal and deliver real-time intelligence as the two countries&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\/157071"}],"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=157071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}