{"id":3277,"date":"2024-01-12T16:03:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T16:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinas-change-6-scheduled-for-launch-in-first-half-of-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-01-12T16:03:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T16:03:03","slug":"chinas-change-6-scheduled-for-launch-in-first-half-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinas-change-6-scheduled-for-launch-in-first-half-of-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Chang&#8217;e-6 scheduled for launch in first half of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">China&#8217;s Chang&#8217;e-6 lunar probe is scheduled for launch in the first half of this year, the China National Space Administration said Wednesday. <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Components for the Chang&#8217;e-6 lunar probe have been transported to the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern province of Hainan, and pre-launch tests will be carried out as scheduled, the agency said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Currently, the facilities at the launch site are in good condition and preparatory work is underway as planned, it added. <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The Chang&#8217;e-6 is set to collect samples from the far side of the moon, marking a mission that will be the first of its kind in human history. <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The mission is poised to make breakthroughs in key technologies, such as automatic sample collection, take-off and ascent from the far side of the moon. Meanwhile, the probe will carry out scientific exploration of the landing zone. <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The CNSA has announced that scientific instruments from France, Italy and the European Space Agency\/Sweden will be onboard the lander of the Chang&#8217;e-6 mission, and a Pakistani payload on the orbiter.<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s Chang&#8217;e-6 lunar probe is scheduled for launch in the first half of this year, the China National Space Administration said Wednesday. Components for the Chang&#8217;e-6 lunar probe have been transported to the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern province of Hainan, and pre-launch tests will be carried out as scheduled, the agency said. [&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-3277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277"}],"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=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}