{"id":1844488,"date":"2023-02-12T17:04:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T22:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1844488"},"modified":"2023-02-12T17:07:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T22:07:59","slug":"astronomers-say-chinese-satellite-beamed-green-lasers-over-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/astronomers-say-chinese-satellite-beamed-green-lasers-over-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Say Chinese Satellite Beamed Green Lasers Over Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fastronomers-say-chinese-satellite-beamed-green-lasers-over-hawaii%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1844488&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Astronomers believe the green laser beams that were seen above the Hawaiian Islands last month may have come from a Chinese satellite.<\/p>\n<p>The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) said in a January 30 tweet that the space agency\u2019s Subaru-Asahi Star Camera on Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii captured green laser lights in the cloudy sky over Maunakea, Hawai\u2019i.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">HST, Subaru Asahi Star Camera captured the green laser lights over Maunakea (Hawaii) on Jan 28, 2023. They are believed to have been captured by remote-sensing satellites ICESAT-2\/43613.<br \/>Check out the video: a href=&#8221;https:\/\/t.co\/xqoJvSa24s&#8221;>https:\/\/t.co\/xqoJvSa24s<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SubaruTelescope?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SubaruTelescope<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5hhIsewuNp\">pic.twitter.com\/5hhIsewuNp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Subaru Telescope Eng (@SubaruTel_Eng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SubaruTel_Eng\/status\/1620210575111327745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although the agency initially believed the lights came from a NASA remote-sensing altimeter satellite known as an ICESAT-2\/43613, which CNET described as NASA\u2019s Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 that shoots lasers at Earth to measure the surface of the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have corrected the original statement, saying that NASA scientists were correct in their initial statement. \u201cdid a simulation of the trajectory of satellites that have a similar instrument and found a most likely candidate as the ACDL instrument by the Chinese Daqi-1\/AEMS satellite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe really appreciate their efforts in the identification of the light,\u201d NAOJ wrote. \u201cWe are sorry about our confusion related to this event and its potential impact on the ICESat-2 team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The University of Hawaii, Institute of Astronomy\u2019s Roy Gal told <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/nexstar-media-wire\/chinese-satellite-beams-green-lasers-over-hawaii\/\">KHON2<\/a> The beams were sent by a Chinese satellite, which measures pollutants. \u201camong other things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has many different instruments on it \u2026 Some kind of topographical mapping or they\u2019re also used for measuring stuff in Earth\u2019s atmosphere, and I think that\u2019s what it is, environmental measurement satellite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gal also mentioned that the U.S. has satellites carrying out the same tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Still, China\u2019s spacecraft does not pose a risk to the islands or locals as tensions between the U.S. and China rise amid spy satellites and other devices owned by the Chinese regime entering U.S. air space, which has prompted the deployment of U.S. military fighter jets several times to strike down the objects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, it\u2019s not a risk to Hawaii or anyplace else, too,\u201d Gal said. \u201dWe have aircraft making these measurements all the time. If you\u2019ve seen topographical maps with high precision, those are made using sometimes this kind of thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ray L\u2019Heureux, a former chief of staff of Marine Forces Pacific, told the news outlet aired a different opinion surrounding the laser beams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure, and this is my opinion, why the Chinese \u2014 who are probably some of the most prolific polluters on the planet \u2014 would be collecting data on pollutants on this side of the Pacific,\u201d L\u2019Heureux said.<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019Heureux noted that due to the tensions between the U.S. and China, \u201cpeople are a little antsy, and I think we just need to be a little bit more aware, vigilant.\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers believe the green laser beams spotted over the Hawaiian Islands last month came from a Chinese satellite. The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) said in a January 30 tweet that the space agency\u2019s Subaru-Asahi Star Camera on Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii captured green laser lights in the cloudy sky &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1844491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[18441,18440,4117,5812,10364,15349,18439],"class_list":["post-1844488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-astronomers","tag-beamed","tag-chinese","tag-green","tag-hawaii","tag-lasers","tag-satellite"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1844491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}