{"id":4216,"date":"2014-02-18T10:14:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T10:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/change-2-lunar-probe-travels-70-mln-km\/"},"modified":"2014-02-18T10:14:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T10:14:27","slug":"change-2-lunar-probe-travels-70-mln-km","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/change-2-lunar-probe-travels-70-mln-km\/","title":{"rendered":"Chang&#8217;e-2 Lunar Probe Travels 70 mln km"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">BEIJING, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) &#8212; China&#8217;s second lunar probe, Chang&#8217;e-2, has traveled more than 70 million km into deep space in good condition, so far the longest voyage of a Chinese spacecraft, a senior engineer said Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">Chang&#8217;e-2 was launched on Oct. 1, 2010 to verify crucial technologies for Chang&#8217;e-3. It set off from its moon orbit for outer space in June 2011 after finishing all of its tasks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">Chang&#8217;e-2 is expected to travel as far as 300 million km from the earth, after which it will return to perigee of about 7 million km from the earth around 2029, said Zhou Jianliang, chief engineer of the Beijing Aerospace Control Center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">The probe will reach 100 million km from Earth in July of this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">The control center has made many breakthroughs in fuel use and orbital decay technologies, which will boost China&#8217;s future deep space exploration, Zhou said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) &#8212; China&#8217;s second lunar probe, Chang&#8217;e-2, has traveled more than 70 million km into deep space in good condition, so far the longest voyage of a Chinese spacecraft, a senior engineer said Friday. Chang&#8217;e-2 was launched on Oct. 1, 2010 to verify crucial technologies for Chang&#8217;e-3. It set off from its [&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-4216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216"}],"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=4216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}