{"id":3250,"date":"2024-03-20T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-launches-new-relay-satellite-for-earth-moon-communications\/"},"modified":"2024-03-20T09:00:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T09:00:17","slug":"china-launches-new-relay-satellite-for-earth-moon-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-launches-new-relay-satellite-for-earth-moon-communications\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches new relay satellite for Earth-Moon communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">China launched a new relay satellite on Wednesday to provide Earth-Moon communications services, a key step for its future lunar exploration missions such as retrieving samples from the far side of the moon.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><br \/> <\/span> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/english.spacechina.com\/n17212\/c4062085\/part\/4062095.jpg\"  border=\"0\" align=\"center\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><br \/> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">A Long March-8 rocket, carrying the satellite dubbed Queqiao-2, or magpie bridge-2, soared into the sky at 8:31 a.m. from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in south China&#8217;s Hainan Province. <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">After 24 minutes of flight, the satellite separated from the rocket, and entered the planned Earth-Moon transfer orbit with the perigee at 200 kilometers and the apogee at 420,000 kilometers. The satellite&#8217;s solar panels and communications antennae were unfolded, according to the China National Space Administration.<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China launched a new relay satellite on Wednesday to provide Earth-Moon communications services, a key step for its future lunar exploration missions such as retrieving samples from the far side of the moon. A Long March-8 rocket, carrying the satellite dubbed Queqiao-2, or magpie bridge-2, soared into the sky at 8:31 a.m. from the Wenchang [&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-3250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250"}],"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=3250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}