{"id":3504,"date":"2022-07-28T14:05:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T14:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-launches-wentian-space-lab\/"},"modified":"2022-07-28T14:05:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T14:05:07","slug":"china-launches-wentian-space-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-launches-wentian-space-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches Wentian space lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >China on Sunday launched Wentian, the first lab module of its space station. The new module will function both as a backup of the core module and as a powerful scientific experiment platform.<\/p>\n<p >The Wentian module is 17.9 meters long, has a maximum diameter of 4.2 meters, and a takeoff mass of 23 tonnes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/english.spacechina.com\/n17212\/c3588951\/part\/3588968.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p >The Long March-5B Y3 carrier rocket, carrying Wentian, blasted off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast of the southern island province of Hainan.<\/p>\n<p >The construction of China&#8217;s Tiangong space station is expected to be completed this year. It will then evolve from a single-module structure into a national space laboratory with three modules &#8212; the core module, Tianhe, and two lab modules, Wentian and Mengtian.<\/p>\n<p >The mission marked the 428th flight of the Long March carrier rockets. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China on Sunday launched Wentian, the first lab module of its space station. The new module will function both as a backup of the core module and as a powerful scientific experiment platform. The Wentian module is 17.9 meters long, has a maximum diameter of 4.2 meters, and a takeoff mass of 23 tonnes. The [&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-3504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504"}],"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=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}