{"id":3266,"date":"2024-02-22T15:08:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T15:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/carrier-rocket-for-chinas-queqiao-2-arrives-at-launch-site\/"},"modified":"2024-02-22T15:08:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T15:08:03","slug":"carrier-rocket-for-chinas-queqiao-2-arrives-at-launch-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/carrier-rocket-for-chinas-queqiao-2-arrives-at-launch-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrier rocket for China&#8217;s Queqiao-2 arrives at launch site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The carrier rocket for China&#8217;s relay satellite Queqiao-2 has arrived at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China&#8217;s Hainan Province, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said on Thursday. <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The Long March-8 Y3 carrier rocket will undergo assembly and testing at the launch site, the CNSA added. <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">As a new generation carrier rocket, Long March-8 uses green and environmentally friendly liquid propellant. The rocket achieved its maiden flight in 2020, filling the gap in China&#8217;s launch capability of sending payloads of 3 to 5 tonnes to the sun-synchronous orbit. <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">According to the CNSA, Queqiao-2, which had been transported to the same launch site earlier this month, is scheduled for launch in the first half of 2024. <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">At present, the facilities at the launch site are in good condition and preparatory work is underway as planned, the agency said. <\/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 carrier rocket for China&#8217;s relay satellite Queqiao-2 has arrived at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China&#8217;s Hainan Province, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said on Thursday. The Long March-8 Y3 carrier rocket will undergo assembly and testing at the launch site, the CNSA added. As a new generation carrier rocket, Long [&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-3266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266"}],"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=3266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}