{"id":3701,"date":"2020-11-19T11:33:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T11:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-prepares-to-launch-long-march-5-rocket-for-change-5-mission\/"},"modified":"2020-11-19T11:33:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T11:33:44","slug":"china-prepares-to-launch-long-march-5-rocket-for-change-5-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-prepares-to-launch-long-march-5-rocket-for-change-5-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"China prepares to launch Long March-5 rocket for Chang&#8217;e-5 mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >The fifth Long March-5 rocket, to be used to launch China&#8217;s Chang&#8217;e-5 lunar probe, was vertically transported to the launching area at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China&#8217;s Hainan Province on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p >The carrier rocket, coded as Long March-5 Y5, is planned to be launched in late November, according to the China National Space Administration.<\/p>\n<p >Space engineers have conducted a general assembly and tests on the rocket after it was transported to Wenchang in late September.<\/p>\n<p >It took about two hours to vertically transport the large rocket to the launching area Tuesday morning. Final examinations and tests will be conducted on the rocket before the launch.<\/p>\n<p >The Long March-5 carrier rocket, currently China&#8217;s largest launch vehicle, successfully launched China&#8217;s first Mars mission Tianwen-1 on July 23.<\/p>\n<p >The Chang&#8217;e-5 mission aims to conduct unmanned lunar sample collection and return to Earth, one of the country&#8217;s most complicated and challenging space missions. It will contribute to the scientific studies in fields such as the formation and evolution of the moon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fifth Long March-5 rocket, to be used to launch China&#8217;s Chang&#8217;e-5 lunar probe, was vertically transported to the launching area at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China&#8217;s Hainan Province on Tuesday. The carrier rocket, coded as Long March-5 Y5, is planned to be launched in late November, according to the China National [&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-3701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701"}],"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=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}