{"id":19193,"date":"2016-10-24T22:19:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T14:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-snaps-selfies-of-its-space-lab\/"},"modified":"2016-10-24T22:19:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T14:19:11","slug":"china-snaps-selfies-of-its-space-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-snaps-selfies-of-its-space-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"China snaps selfies of its space lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_284182\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-284182\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-284182\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/161024-china-tiangong-630x503.jpg\" alt=\"Tiangong and Shenzhou\" width=\"630\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/161024-china-tiangong-630x503.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/161024-china-tiangong-768x613.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/161024-china-tiangong.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-284182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A \u201cselfie\u201d from China\u2019s Banxing 2 inspection satellite shows the Shenzhou 11 spaceship docked to the Tiangong 2 orbital lab. (Credit: CAS via CCTV)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>China\u2019s Tiangong 2 space lab&nbsp;has a paparazzi traveling alongside it, in the form of a picture-snapping satellite that\u2019s the size of a desktop printer.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite, Banxing 2, was released from the lab over the weekend and has already captured hundreds of images of Tiangong 2&nbsp;with the Shenzhou 11 spacecraft docked to it.<\/p>\n<p>Testing what\u2019s been called an orbital \u201cselfie stick\u201d is one of the prime objectives of the 30-day Shenzhou mission currently being conducted by Chinese astronauts Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Accompanying Satellite Sends Back Photos of Shenzhou-11 and Tiangong-2 Complex\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ll4M5a1pJE0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Banxing 2, which builds upon earlier experiments with inspection satellites, will fly in formation and take pictures in visible and thermal infrared wavelengths to monitor&nbsp;the space lab\u2019s condition.<\/p>\n<p>The 100-pound (47-kilogram), solar-powered satellite is due to use its ammonia thruster system to back away as far as 300 miles (500 kilometers) and then approach again for a close-in inspection. Banxing 2&nbsp;is also expected to take pictures of Earth and monitor&nbsp;orbital debris.<\/p>\n<p>Jing and Chen are due to leave Tiangong 2 in their Shenzhou craft and return to Earth in mid-November, capping off China\u2019s longest crewed space mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u201cselfie\u201d from China\u2019s Banxing 2 inspection satellite shows the Shenzhou 11 spaceship docked to the Tiangong 2 orbital lab. (Credit: CAS via CCTV) China\u2019s Tiangong 2 space lab&nbsp;has a paparazzi traveling alongside it, in the form of a picture-snapping satellite that\u2019s the size of a desktop printer. The satellite, Banxing 2, was released from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5488,135,329,330],"class_list":["post-19193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-banxing","tag-china","tag-shenzhou","tag-tiangong"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}