{"id":3698,"date":"2020-11-26T16:03:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T16:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinas-change-5-probe-completes-first-orbital-correction\/"},"modified":"2020-11-26T16:03:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T16:03:08","slug":"chinas-change-5-probe-completes-first-orbital-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinas-change-5-probe-completes-first-orbital-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Chang&#8217;e-5 probe completes first orbital correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >China&#8217;s lunar probe Chang&#8217;e-5 successfully carried out its first orbital correction Tuesday night, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA).<\/p>\n<p >The probe conducted the orbital correction at 10:06 p.m. (Beijing Time) when its 3000N engine was operational for about two seconds, and then continued its trip to the moon.<\/p>\n<p >Prior to the orbital correction, the lunar probe had traveled for roughly 17 hours in space, and was about 160,000 km away from Earth. All of the probe&#8217;s systems were in good condition, said the CNSA.<\/p>\n<p >Orbital correction is necessary to ensure the probe follows its theoretical trajectory as closely as possible, said the CNSA.<\/p>\n<p >China launched the lunar probe at 4:30 a.m. Tuesday to collect and return samples from the moon. It is the country&#8217;s first attempt to retrieve samples from an extraterrestrial body. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s lunar probe Chang&#8217;e-5 successfully carried out its first orbital correction Tuesday night, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA). The probe conducted the orbital correction at 10:06 p.m. (Beijing Time) when its 3000N engine was operational for about two seconds, and then continued its trip to the moon. Prior to the orbital correction, [&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-3698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698"}],"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=3698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}