{"id":4212,"date":"2014-03-06T10:45:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T10:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-to-launch-first-space-shuttle-bus-this-year\/"},"modified":"2014-03-06T10:45:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T10:45:46","slug":"china-to-launch-first-space-shuttle-bus-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-to-launch-first-space-shuttle-bus-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"China to Launch First &#8220;Space Shuttle Bus&#8221; This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >BEIJING, March 3 (Xinhua) &#8212; China is expected to launch an upper stage aircraft this year that can be used as a &#8220;space shuttle bus&#8221; to propel payload in space, a senior official in charge of rocket research said Monday.<\/p>\n<p >The Yuanzheng-1 (Expedition-1) upper stage aircraft, attached with a carrier rocket, can carry aircraft using its own power system after reaching an initial orbit, said Liang Xiaohong, Party secretary of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology.<\/p>\n<p >Yuanzheng-1, which uses liquid propellant, can fulfill several missions while in space and operate as long as 6.5 hours in orbit, said Liang, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People&#8217;s Political Consultative Conference, the country&#8217;s top political advisory body.<\/p>\n<p >It has the same function as a carrier rocket and can bring multiple aircraft to different locations in space, said Liang.<\/p>\n<p >Yuanzheng-1 will play an important role in future moon and Mars exploration as well as orbital transfer and space debris clearing, he said.<\/p>\n<p >China has developed multiple upper stage aircraft with solid propellants since 1980s. Those aircraft had 10 flights, all of which were successful. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, March 3 (Xinhua) &#8212; China is expected to launch an upper stage aircraft this year that can be used as a &#8220;space shuttle bus&#8221; to propel payload in space, a senior official in charge of rocket research said Monday. The Yuanzheng-1 (Expedition-1) upper stage aircraft, attached with a carrier rocket, can carry aircraft using [&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-4212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212"}],"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=4212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}