{"id":4187,"date":"2014-10-28T15:54:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T15:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinas-lunar-orbiter-modifies-orbit\/"},"modified":"2014-10-28T15:54:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T15:54:26","slug":"chinas-lunar-orbiter-modifies-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinas-lunar-orbiter-modifies-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Lunar Orbiter Modifies Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >BEIJING, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) &#8212; China&#8217;s spacecraft testing technology for the Chang&#8217;e-5 return lunar mission, trimmed its orbit on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p >This was the first modification during a journey scheduled to take about eight days, according to a statement from the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense.<\/p>\n<p >The modification was necessary because the unmanned spacecraft is affected by external factors during the transfer from a terrestrial orbit to a lunar orbit, according to the statement. Updated software allows monitors in Beijing to spot glitches during the journey immediately and respond to them.<\/p>\n<p >The orbiter was launched by a Long March-3C rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China&#8217;s Sichuan Province on early Friday.<\/p>\n<p >Developed by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, the spacecraft will fly around the moon half a circle and return to Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) &#8212; China&#8217;s spacecraft testing technology for the Chang&#8217;e-5 return lunar mission, trimmed its orbit on Friday afternoon. This was the first modification during a journey scheduled to take about eight days, according to a statement from the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. The modification was necessary [&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-4187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187"}],"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=4187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}