{"id":4176,"date":"2015-01-07T09:16:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T09:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinese-spacecraft-to-return-to-moons-orbit\/"},"modified":"2015-01-07T09:16:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T09:16:33","slug":"chinese-spacecraft-to-return-to-moons-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinese-spacecraft-to-return-to-moons-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Spacecraft to Return to Moon&#8217;s Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">BEIJING, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) &#8212; The service module of China&#8217;s unmanned lunar orbiter is scheduled to return to the moon&#8217;s orbit in mid-January for more tests to prepare for the country&#8217;s next lunar probe mission, Chang&#8217;e-5.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">On Sunday, the service module left the Earth-Moon second Lagrange Point (L2) after circling the point while performing additional tests, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND) said Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">A lunar orbiter is a spacecraft that orbits the moon, and its service module contains support systems used for spacecraft operations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">As of Monday, the service module was 445,000 kilometers away from Earth and 57,000 km from the moon. All experiments are operating smoothly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">The service module was separated from the test lunar orbiter&#8217;s return capsule on Nov. 1, and the return capsule returned to Earth on Nov. 1 after circling the moon during its eight-day mission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">China&#8217;s lunar orbiter program was the world&#8217;s first mission to the moon and back in some 40 years, making China the third nation to complete a return mission to the moon after the Soviet Union and the United States. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) &#8212; The service module of China&#8217;s unmanned lunar orbiter is scheduled to return to the moon&#8217;s orbit in mid-January for more tests to prepare for the country&#8217;s next lunar probe mission, Chang&#8217;e-5. On Sunday, the service module left the Earth-Moon second Lagrange Point (L2) after circling the point while performing additional [&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-4176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176"}],"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=4176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}