{"id":320828,"date":"2020-04-13T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T20:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=320828"},"modified":"2020-04-13T06:00:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T20:00:29","slug":"unidentified-object-likely-connected-to-scheduled-test-launch-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/unidentified-object-likely-connected-to-scheduled-test-launch-from-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Unidentified object likely connected  to scheduled test launch from China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In concert with federal partners, the Offices of Guam Homeland Security and Civil Defense and the Mariana Regional Fusion Center identified last Thursday a seemingly bright fire or object falling from the sky over the Marianas to be likely connected to a scheduled satellite test launch from China.<\/p>\n<p>Open sources report that a Chinese Long March 3B rocket was scheduled to launch the Palapa N1 communications satellite, also known as Nusantara Satu 2, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China on April 9 at 7:40am EDT. <\/p>\n<p>This scheduled commercial space launch occurred around 9:40pm ChST and corresponds with the timing of the widely circulated videos of the fiery object in the sky. <\/p>\n<p>There was no direct threat assessed to the Marianas from the launch.<strong> (PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In concert with federal partners, the Offices of Guam Homeland Security and Civil Defense and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[169,492],"class_list":["post-320828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-china","tag-test"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}