{"id":3251,"date":"2024-03-18T13:37:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T13:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-prepares-to-launch-relay-satellite-queqiao-2\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T13:37:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T13:37:58","slug":"china-prepares-to-launch-relay-satellite-queqiao-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-prepares-to-launch-relay-satellite-queqiao-2\/","title":{"rendered":"China prepares to launch relay satellite Queqiao-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The combination of the relay satellite Queqiao-2 and the Long March-8 Y3 carrier rocket was vertically transferred on Sunday to the launching area at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China&#8217;s Hainan Province. <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The satellite is projected to be launched at an appropriate time within the next few days, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA). <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The combination on a removable launch pad was moved out of the vertical test building of the launching site in the morning, and then safely transported to its launching area. <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The rocket check, the joint test work and the propellant filling will be carried out before the launch, according to the CNSA. <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Queqiao-2, or Magpie Bridge-2, will serve as a relay platform for the fourth phase of China&#8217;s lunar exploration program, providing communications services for the Chang&#8217;e-4, Chang&#8217;e-6, Chang&#8217;e-7, and Chang&#8217;e-8 missions.<\/span> <\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The combination of the relay satellite Queqiao-2 and the Long March-8 Y3 carrier rocket was vertically transferred on Sunday to the launching area at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China&#8217;s Hainan Province. The satellite is projected to be launched at an appropriate time within the next few days, according to the China National [&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-3251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251"}],"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=3251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}