{"id":3728,"date":"2020-08-05T12:30:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T12:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinas-mars-probe-completes-first-orbital-correction\/"},"modified":"2020-08-05T12:30:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T12:30:06","slug":"chinas-mars-probe-completes-first-orbital-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinas-mars-probe-completes-first-orbital-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Mars probe completes first orbital correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >China&#8217;s Tianwen 1 Mars probe carried out its first mid-course correction on Sunday morning, according to the China National Space Administration.<\/p>\n<p >The spacecraft&#8217;s main orbital-control engine was activated at 7 am for 20 seconds to fine-tune the spacecraft&#8217;s trajectory.<\/p>\n<p >When the correction was made, Tianwen 1 had been in space for more than 9 days and 18 hours on course for the Red Planet and has already traveled about 3 million kilometers.<\/p>\n<p >During the seven-month journey, the spacecraft will make two more course corrections and a deep-space maneuver as it makes its way to the planet.<\/p>\n<p >Tianwen 1, China&#8217;s first independent Mars mission, was launched on July 23 at Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province. That launch simultaneously opened China&#8217;s planetary exploration program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s Tianwen 1 Mars probe carried out its first mid-course correction on Sunday morning, according to the China National Space Administration. The spacecraft&#8217;s main orbital-control engine was activated at 7 am for 20 seconds to fine-tune the spacecraft&#8217;s trajectory. When the correction was made, Tianwen 1 had been in space for more than 9 days [&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-3728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728"}],"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=3728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}