{"id":3972,"date":"2017-02-24T09:43:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T09:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-plans-to-launch-1st-cargo-spacecraft-as-early-as-mid-april\/"},"modified":"2017-02-24T09:43:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T09:43:51","slug":"china-plans-to-launch-1st-cargo-spacecraft-as-early-as-mid-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-plans-to-launch-1st-cargo-spacecraft-as-early-as-mid-april\/","title":{"rendered":"China Plans to Launch 1st Cargo Spacecraft as Early as Mid-April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >BEIJING, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) &#8212; China plans to launch its first cargo spacecraft via a Long March-7 carrier rocket in April, sources said Monday.<\/p>\n<p >The Tianzhou-1 cargo spacecraft, which departed from north China&#8217;s Tianjin on Feb. 5, arrived at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China&#8217;s Hainan Province on Monday for assembly and testing, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).<\/p>\n<p >Consisting of a cargo capsule and a propellent capsule, Tianzhou-1, the first cargo spacecraft independently developed by China, has a take-off weight of about 13 tonnes, up to six tonnes of which is payload. It can remain in space on its own for as long as three months.<\/p>\n<p >It is capable of docking with the Tiangong-2 space lab and refueling it in addition to carrying out experiments and tests.<\/p>\n<p >The launch of Tianzhou-1 will be a crucial step for China in building a space station by 2020, as cargo spacecraft are required to ship necessities to astronauts aboard the station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) &#8212; China plans to launch its first cargo spacecraft via a Long March-7 carrier rocket in April, sources said Monday. The Tianzhou-1 cargo spacecraft, which departed from north China&#8217;s Tianjin on Feb. 5, arrived at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China&#8217;s Hainan Province on Monday for assembly and testing, [&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-3972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972"}],"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=3972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}