{"id":3464,"date":"2022-11-01T17:08:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T17:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-launches-lab-module-mengtian-as-space-station-approaches-completion\/"},"modified":"2022-11-01T17:08:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T17:08:25","slug":"china-launches-lab-module-mengtian-as-space-station-approaches-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-launches-lab-module-mengtian-as-space-station-approaches-completion\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches lab module Mengtian as space station approaches completion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >China on Monday launched the space lab module Mengtian, taking construction of the country&#8217;s space station Tiangong into final stage.<\/p>\n<p >The Mengtian module, flying to join the two-module combination already about 400 kilometers above Earth, is the last &#8220;building block&#8221; that allows Tiangong to form a T-shape structure, the planned layout at the space station&#8217;s completion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"310\" src=\"https:\/\/english.spacechina.com\/n17212\/c3655762\/part\/3655776.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p >The new combination is projected to take shape after a succession of elaborately-maneuvered tasks including the docking and the subsequent in-orbit transposition.<\/p>\n<p >The Long March-5B Y4 carrier rocket, carrying Mengtian, blasted off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast of the southern island province of Hainan, according to the China Manned Space Agency. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China on Monday launched the space lab module Mengtian, taking construction of the country&#8217;s space station Tiangong into final stage. The Mengtian module, flying to join the two-module combination already about 400 kilometers above Earth, is the last &#8220;building block&#8221; that allows Tiangong to form a T-shape structure, the planned layout at the space station&#8217;s [&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-3464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464"}],"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=3464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}