{"id":3691,"date":"2020-12-10T17:53:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T17:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ascender-of-change-5-leaves-lunar-orbit-lands-on-moon\/"},"modified":"2020-12-10T17:53:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T17:53:06","slug":"ascender-of-change-5-leaves-lunar-orbit-lands-on-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ascender-of-change-5-leaves-lunar-orbit-lands-on-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ascender of Chang&#8217;e-5 leaves lunar orbit, lands on moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >The ascender of China&#8217;s Chang&#8217;e-5 probe departed from the lunar orbit under ground commands at 6:59 a.m. and landed on the moon at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday (Beijing Time), sources with the China National Space Administration said.<\/p>\n<p >The ascender previously took off from the lunar surface and completed rendezvous and docking with the probe&#8217;s orbiter-returner combination in the lunar orbit.<\/p>\n<p >After transferring samples collected on the moon to the returner, the ascender separated from the orbiter-returner combination on Dec. 6.<\/p>\n<p >Tuesday&#8217;s maneuver marks the completion of the ascender&#8217;s mission, according to the space administration.<\/p>\n<p >Deorbiting and moon landing of the spacecraft can prevent it from becoming space debris and affecting follow-up lunar missions of other countries, which is also an important commitment of China, as a responsible country, to the peaceful exploration and use of space by humankind, the administration said.<\/p>\n<p >The Chang&#8217;e-5 probe, comprising an orbiter, a lander, an ascender and a returner, was launched on Nov. 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ascender of China&#8217;s Chang&#8217;e-5 probe departed from the lunar orbit under ground commands at 6:59 a.m. and landed on the moon at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday (Beijing Time), sources with the China National Space Administration said. The ascender previously took off from the lunar surface and completed rendezvous and docking with the probe&#8217;s orbiter-returner combination [&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-3691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691"}],"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=3691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}