{"id":3898,"date":"2018-05-09T12:50:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T12:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinas-change-4-relay-satellite-named-queqiao\/"},"modified":"2018-05-09T12:50:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T12:50:26","slug":"chinas-change-4-relay-satellite-named-queqiao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinas-change-4-relay-satellite-named-queqiao\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Chang&#8217;e-4 Relay Satellite Named &#8220;Queqiao&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >HARBIN, April 28 (<font face=\"Arial\">China Space News) &#8211; The relay satellite for the Chang&#8217;e-4 lunar probe, which is expected to land on the far side of the Moon later this year, has been named &#8220;Queqiao&#8221; &#8211; magpie bridge.<\/p>\n<p >The name was announced by the China National Space Administration (CNSA)Tuesday, China&#8217;s Space Day.<\/p>\n<p >Together with the relay satellite, two microsatellites, developed by the Harbin Institute of Technology, will also be sent into orbit. The two microsatellites were named &#8220;Longjiang-1&#8221; and &#8220;Longjiang-2.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p >Chang&#8217;e-4 will carry payloads for Germany, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia and Sweden,<\/p>\n<p >The far side of the moon is of great scientific interest, but landing there requires a relay satellite to transmit signals.<\/p>\n<p >The relay satellite will be sent into the halo orbit of the Earth-Moon Lagrange Point L2 in late May, and the Chang&#8217;e-4 lunar lander and rover will be sent to the Aitken Basin of the south pole region of the Moon about six months later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARBIN, April 28 (China Space News) &#8211; The relay satellite for the Chang&#8217;e-4 lunar probe, which is expected to land on the far side of the Moon later this year, has been named &#8220;Queqiao&#8221; &#8211; magpie bridge. The name was announced by the China National Space Administration (CNSA)Tuesday, China&#8217;s Space Day. Together with the relay [&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-3898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898"}],"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=3898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}