{"id":3968,"date":"2017-03-17T09:10:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T09:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/long-march-7-y2-ready-for-launch-of-chinas-first-cargo-spacecraft\/"},"modified":"2017-03-17T09:10:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T09:10:01","slug":"long-march-7-y2-ready-for-launch-of-chinas-first-cargo-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/long-march-7-y2-ready-for-launch-of-chinas-first-cargo-spacecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Long March-7 Y2 Ready for Launch of China&#8217;s First Cargo Spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >WENCHANG, Hainan, March 11 (Xinhua) &#8212; A Long March-7 Y2 carrier rocket arrived at a launch center in south China on Saturday in preparation for the launch of China&#8217;s first cargo spacecraft next month.<\/p>\n<p >After about a week of ocean and rail transport, the carrier rocket arrived at Wenchang, Hainan, where it will undergo assembly and testing prior to the April launch of China&#8217;s first cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-1, said China&#8217;s manned space engineering office.<\/p>\n<p >Tianzhou-1 is expected to dock with the orbiting Tiangong-2 space lab three times and conduct propellent refueling in orbit as well as other space experiments before falling back to earth. Tiangong-2 will remain in orbit and continue its experiments.<\/p>\n<p >The Long March-7 Y2 is a medium-sized rocket that can carry up to 13.5 tonnes to low-Earth orbit. It is able to carry cargo spacecraft and man-made satellites. It made its maiden flight in June 2016.<\/p>\n<p >The launch of Tianzhou-1 will complete the second phase of the country&#8217;s manned space program, a crucial step for China in building a space station by 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WENCHANG, Hainan, March 11 (Xinhua) &#8212; A Long March-7 Y2 carrier rocket arrived at a launch center in south China on Saturday in preparation for the launch of China&#8217;s first cargo spacecraft next month. After about a week of ocean and rail transport, the carrier rocket arrived at Wenchang, Hainan, where it will undergo assembly [&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-3968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968"}],"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=3968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}