{"id":3964,"date":"2017-05-11T11:07:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T11:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/long-march-5-carrier-rocket-arrives-at-south-china-launch-base\/"},"modified":"2017-05-11T11:07:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T11:07:28","slug":"long-march-5-carrier-rocket-arrives-at-south-china-launch-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/long-march-5-carrier-rocket-arrives-at-south-china-launch-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Long March-5 Carrier Rocket Arrives at South China Launch Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">BEIJING, May 6 (Xinhua) &#8212; A Long March-5 carrier rocket has arrived in Wenchang in south China&#8217;s Hainan Province, for the launch of the Shijian-18 communication satellite, scheduled for June, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">It will be the second mission of the Long March-5 which made its maiden flight from Wenchang in November.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">During the mission, the rocket will further test its core technology, accumulate data and provide support ahead of the launch of the Chang&#8217;e-5 lunar probe in the second half of this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">Fuelled by liquid hydrogen, kerosene and liquid oxygen, the Long March-5 can carry a payload of 25 tonnes into low Earth orbit and 14 tonnes in geostationary orbit, over 2.5 times the capacity of current Long March carrier rockets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, May 6 (Xinhua) &#8212; A Long March-5 carrier rocket has arrived in Wenchang in south China&#8217;s Hainan Province, for the launch of the Shijian-18 communication satellite, scheduled for June, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation said Saturday. It will be the second mission of the Long March-5 which made its maiden flight from [&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-3964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964"}],"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=3964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}