{"id":504,"date":"2015-10-30T13:17:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T13:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=504"},"modified":"2015-10-30T13:17:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T13:17:11","slug":"china-tests-a-new-near-space-airship-that-can-observe-the-east-and-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2015\/10\/30\/china-tests-a-new-near-space-airship-that-can-observe-the-east-and-south-china-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"CHINA TESTS A NEW NEAR-SPACE AIRSHIP THAT CAN OBSERVE THE EAST AND SOUTH CHINA SEA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOn the 13th of October China launched the first civil-military, dual-use, near-space helium-filled airship “Yuanmeng”, in Xilinhot in northern China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.<\/p>\n

The Chinese airship is 75 meters long, with a diameter of 22 meters and occupies 18,000 cubic meters. Yuanmeng rose to 20km in around 50 minutes and unfolded its whole body.<\/p>\n

Near space is the region of the Earth’s atmosphere that lies between 20 and 100 km above sea level.<\/p>\n

Once Yuanmeng is at high altitude, solar panels mounted on the top surface of the airship provide electrical power to propellers of the airship.<\/p>\n

Solar power is ideal for large airships because it reduces the need for an internal fuel supply, reducing the overall size of the airship.<\/p>\n

The Chinese airship can stay in near-space for six months and is equipped with wide-band communication, digital data links, high-definition observation (HD cameras) and spatial imaging systems.<\/p>\n

According to defense analysts, the Chinese airship can be used for the detection of large naval units and can cover a huge area with its sensors, providing imaging in real time.<\/p>\n

The airship is another asset in the arsenal of China, which can be used in controlling the East and South China Sea<\/p>\n

Image Sourced: Popular Science<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the 13th of October China launched the first civil-military, dual-use, near-space helium-filled airship “Yuanmeng”, in Xilinhot in northern China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The Chinese airship is 75 meters long, with a diameter of 22 meters and occupies 18,000 cubic meters. Yuanmeng rose to 20km in around 50 minutes and unfolded its whole body.… Continue reading CHINA TESTS A NEW NEAR-SPACE AIRSHIP THAT CAN OBSERVE THE EAST AND SOUTH CHINA SEA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[223,80,33,225,226,224,222],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","tag-airship","tag-china","tag-dcss-news","tag-east-china-sea","tag-inner-mongolia-autonomous-region","tag-south-china-sea","tag-yuanmeng","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}