{"id":18775,"date":"2018-10-18T11:49:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T11:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/?p=18775"},"modified":"2018-10-18T11:49:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T11:49:58","slug":"china-to-launch-artificial-moon-into-orbit-to-light-up-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/technology\/china-to-launch-artificial-moon-into-orbit-to-light-up-city\/2018\/","title":{"rendered":"China plans to \u2018launch its own artificial moon\u2019 by 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">China is to launch an\u00a0artificial &#8220;moon&#8221; into space that it hopes will illuminate one of the country&#8217;s biggest cities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials in Chengdu, a city of 14 million people in China&#8217;s southwestern province of Sichuan, announced plans to place a satellite in orbit by 2020 capable of reflecting sunlight onto its streets at night, claiming it will be bright enough to entirely replace street lights.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18782\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.akatanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/chinamoon-300x211.jpg?resize=741%2C521&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"741\" height=\"521\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The satellite would use a reflective coating to direct light to illuminate an area on earth of up to 50 square miles, according to Wu Chunfeng, chairman of the city\u2019s Aerospace Science and Technology Microelectronics System Research Institute.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He did not say how much the project would cost.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scientists have warned the device could disturb wildlife and disrupt systems that observe the earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, Kang Weimin, a director at the School of Aerospace at the Harbin Institute of Technology, told CIFNews that the satellite will produce a dusk-like glow, meaning it will not affect animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is to launch an\u00a0artificial &#8220;moon&#8221; into space that it hopes will illuminate one of the country&#8217;s biggest cities. Officials in Chengdu, a city of 14 million people in China&#8217;s southwestern province of Sichuan, announced plans to place a satellite in orbit by 2020 capable of reflecting sunlight onto its streets at night, claiming it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":18780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}