{"id":3008,"date":"2025-12-19T15:38:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/asteroid-named-after-chinese-space-tech-expert-qi-faren\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T15:38:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:38:57","slug":"asteroid-named-after-chinese-space-tech-expert-qi-faren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/asteroid-named-after-chinese-space-tech-expert-qi-faren\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid named after Chinese space-tech expert Qi Faren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p  >An asteroid has been named after Qi Faren, a renowned Chinese space technology expert, according to the China Academy of Space Technology under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.<\/p>\n<p  >A ceremony was held recently to announce the name, which had been approved by the International Astronomical Union, according to the academy.<\/p>\n<p  >The asteroid, coded 336877, was discovered by the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p  >Qi participated in the development of Dongfanghong-1 satellite, later led the development of Dongfanghong-2 and Dongfanghong-3, and became the chief designer for Shenzhou spaceships, laying a solid foundation for the success of China&#8217;s space station missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An asteroid has been named after Qi Faren, a renowned Chinese space technology expert, according to the China Academy of Space Technology under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. A ceremony was held recently to announce the name, which had been approved by the International Astronomical Union, according to the academy. The asteroid, coded [&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":[],"class_list":["post-3008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008"}],"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=3008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}