{"id":4017,"date":"2016-09-29T12:59:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T12:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/tiangong-2-space-lab-enters-preset-orbit-for-docking-with-manned-spacecraft\/"},"modified":"2016-09-29T12:59:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T12:59:41","slug":"tiangong-2-space-lab-enters-preset-orbit-for-docking-with-manned-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/tiangong-2-space-lab-enters-preset-orbit-for-docking-with-manned-spacecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiangong-2 Space Lab Enters Preset Orbit for Docking with Manned Spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >BEIJING, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) &#8212; Chinese scientists on Sunday maneuvered the country&#8217;s Tiangong-2 space lab to a preset orbit 393 kilometers above Earth&#8217;s surface, in preparation for a planned docking with the Shenzhou-11 manned spacecraft set to launch next month.<\/p>\n<p >Tiangong-2, which blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the back of a Long March-2F T2 rocket on Sept. 15, has already gone through about nine days of on-orbit testing before Sunday&#8217;s maneuver, according to the Beijing Aerospace Control Center.<\/p>\n<p >Earlier reports said China&#8217;s future space station, which the country plans to put into service around 2022, will also be orbiting the Earth at approximately the same height &#8211; 393 kilometers above ground.<\/p>\n<p >The Shenzhou-11 manned spacecraft is expected to carry two astronauts into space to dock with the Tiangong-2 in October. The astronauts will work in the lab for 30 days before returning to Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) &#8212; Chinese scientists on Sunday maneuvered the country&#8217;s Tiangong-2 space lab to a preset orbit 393 kilometers above Earth&#8217;s surface, in preparation for a planned docking with the Shenzhou-11 manned spacecraft set to launch next month. Tiangong-2, which blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the back of a [&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-4017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017"}],"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=4017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}