{"id":4170,"date":"2015-03-12T17:13:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T17:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinas-test-spacecraft-simulates-orbital-docking\/"},"modified":"2015-03-12T17:13:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T17:13:08","slug":"chinas-test-spacecraft-simulates-orbital-docking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinas-test-spacecraft-simulates-orbital-docking\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Test Spacecraft Simulates Orbital Docking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">BEIJING, March 8 (Xinhua) &#8212; China has run tests close to the moon simulating an unmanned docking procedure needed in the country&#8217;s next lunar mission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">The service module of the unmanned lunar orbiter currently in space to trial such techniques entered a target lunar orbit after breaking maneuvers, and flew to a suitable position for orbital docking between Tuesday and Saturday, said the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND) on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">Liu Jizhong, deputy chief commander of the SASTIND&#8217;s lunar probe project, said that the service module has proven the reliability of key technology needed for the docking of two spacecraft in the Chang&#8217;e-5 mission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">The Chang&#8217;e-5 probe, expected to launch in 2017, will be tasked with landing on the moon, collecting samples and returning to Earth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">The current lunar orbiter was launched on Oct. 24, 2014. A capsule designed to separate and return to Earth did so as planned in November, while the service module continues its lunar flight to carry out preset scientific tasks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">The service module is operating smoothly and will carry out further tests on capturing lunar images, and may conduct tests assessing lunar gravity depending how the mission progresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, March 8 (Xinhua) &#8212; China has run tests close to the moon simulating an unmanned docking procedure needed in the country&#8217;s next lunar mission. The service module of the unmanned lunar orbiter currently in space to trial such techniques entered a target lunar orbit after breaking maneuvers, and flew to a suitable position for [&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-4170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170"}],"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=4170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}