{"id":3937,"date":"2017-10-13T13:38:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T13:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinas-cargo-spacecraft-leaves-orbit\/"},"modified":"2017-10-13T13:38:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T13:38:50","slug":"chinas-cargo-spacecraft-leaves-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinas-cargo-spacecraft-leaves-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Cargo Spacecraft Leaves Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >BEIJING, Sept. 25 (China Space News) &#8212; China&#8217;s first cargo spacecraft, Tianzhou-1, left its orbit under orders from ground control around 6 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p >The cargo ship twice put on the breaks, continuously lowering its altitude before burning-up in the atmosphere, all under precise control and close monitoring from the ground.<\/p>\n<p >Before leaving orbit, Tianzhou-1 had completed a number of experiments, gaining important experience for the building and operating of China&#8217;s space station.<\/p>\n<p >Tianzhou-1 was launched on April 20 from south China&#8217;s Hainan Province, and completed automated docking with the orbiting Tiangong-2 space lab on April 22.<\/p>\n<p >The two spacecraft completed their first in-orbit refueling on April 27, a second refueling on June 15 and a final one on September 16. In the past five months, Tianzhou-1 has operated smoothly, completing various tasks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Sept. 25 (China Space News) &#8212; China&#8217;s first cargo spacecraft, Tianzhou-1, left its orbit under orders from ground control around 6 p.m. Friday. The cargo ship twice put on the breaks, continuously lowering its altitude before burning-up in the atmosphere, all under precise control and close monitoring from the ground. Before leaving orbit, Tianzhou-1 [&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-3937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937"}],"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=3937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}