{"id":484,"date":"2018-10-27T15:38:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T14:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoscience.org\/?p=484"},"modified":"2018-10-27T20:02:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T19:02:41","slug":"china-is-sending-a-second-moon-into-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/2018\/10\/27\/china-is-sending-a-second-moon-into-the-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"China Is Sending a Second &#8220;Moon&#8221; Into the Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Space Science<\/i><\/strong><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Date: October, 2018<\/p>\n<p>Source: <i>Inverse<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"original-url\">\n<div>&#8221; Wu Chunfeng, the chairman of Chengdu Aerospace Science and Technology Microelectronics System Research Institute, announced plans to launch an \u201cartificial moon\u201d in 2020. According to Chunfeng, the illumination satellite will be <em>eight times as bright<\/em> as the actual moon. But he also emphasized that it has been designed to \u201ccomplement the moon at night.\u201d On Earth, its presence will appear as a \u201cdusk-like glow\u201d that can light an area with a diameter of close to 50 miles. The main driver of this project appears to be cash. &#8220;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"original-url\">\n<div>\n<\/br><br \/>\nArticle : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/49977-china-space-moon-streetlights?utm_campaign=science-innovation-2018-10-18&amp;utm_medium=inverse&amp;utm_source=newsletter\">A Second Moon in the Sky<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This happen at a time where light pollution has been identified as threatening the ecosystem. See the recent article from <a href=\"https:\/\/the-scientist.com\/features\/the-vanishing-night--light-pollution-threatens-ecosystems-64803\">The Scientist<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space Science Date: October, 2018 Source: Inverse &#8221; Wu Chunfeng, the chairman of Chengdu Aerospace Science and Technology Microelectronics System Research Institute, announced plans to launch an \u201cartificial moon\u201d in 2020. According to Chunfeng, the illumination satellite will be eight times as bright as the actual moon. But he also emphasized that it has been &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/2018\/10\/27\/china-is-sending-a-second-moon-into-the-sky\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;China Is Sending a Second &#8220;Moon&#8221; Into the Sky&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}