{"id":3833,"date":"2019-03-08T17:32:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T17:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-preparing-for-space-station-missions\/"},"modified":"2019-03-08T17:32:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T17:32:29","slug":"china-preparing-for-space-station-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-preparing-for-space-station-missions\/","title":{"rendered":"China Preparing for Space Station Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >BEIJING, March 4 (Xinhua) &#8212; The China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) announced Monday that the core module of the country&#8217;s space station, the Long March-5B carrier rocket and its payloads will be sent to the launch site in the second half of this year, to make preparations for the space station missions.<\/p>\n<p >China is scheduled to complete the construction of the space station around 2022. It will be the country&#8217;s space lab in long-term stable in-orbit operation.<\/p>\n<p >The space station will have a core module and experiment modules, which are under development and will be launched into space by the Long March-5B.<\/p>\n<p >Joint exercises will be carried out in the Wenchang Space Launch Center at the end of 2019 for the maiden flight of the Long March-5B.<\/p>\n<p >Programs to select and train astronauts are underway.<\/p>\n<p >China is committed to making the country&#8217;s space station an international platform for scientific and technological cooperation, according to the CMSEO.<\/p>\n<p >In June this year, the CMSEO will work with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs to complete the application selection of China&#8217;s space station and launch a number of cooperation projects.<\/p>\n<p >China&#8217;s Tiangong-2 space lab, launched on Sept. 15, 2016, is conducting in-orbit tests and will de-orbit after July this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, March 4 (Xinhua) &#8212; The China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) announced Monday that the core module of the country&#8217;s space station, the Long March-5B carrier rocket and its payloads will be sent to the launch site in the second half of this year, to make preparations for the space station missions. China is [&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-3833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833"}],"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=3833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}