{"id":22903,"date":"2020-09-21T16:49:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T07:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/21\/western-australia-space-tracking-station-to-cut-ties-with-china"},"modified":"2020-09-21T16:49:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T07:49:07","slug":"western-australia-space-tracking-station-to-cut-ties-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22903","title":{"rendered":"Western Australia space tracking station to cut ties with China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decision will impact the expansion of Beijing\u2019s space exploration and navigational programs<\/p>\n<p>China will lose access to a strategic space tracking station in Western Australia when its contract expires, the facility\u2019s owners said, a decision that cuts into Beijing\u2019s expanding space exploration and navigational capabilities in the Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) has had a contract allowing Beijing access to the satellite antenna at the ground station since at least 2011. It is located next to an SSC satellite station primarily used by the United States and its agencies, including Nasa.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/21\/western-australia-space-tracking-station-to-cut-ties-with-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decision will impact the expansion of Beijing\u2019s space exploration and navigational programsChina will lose access to a strategic space tracking station in Western Australia when its contract expires, the facility\u2019s owners said, a decision that cuts int&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,50,297,849,854],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-space","category-sweden","category-western-australia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22904,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22903\/revisions\/22904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}