{"id":4225,"date":"2013-12-20T15:57:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T15:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-plans-to-launch-change-5-in-2017\/"},"modified":"2013-12-20T15:57:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T15:57:08","slug":"china-plans-to-launch-change-5-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-plans-to-launch-change-5-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"China Plans to Launch Chang&#8217;e-5 in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">BEIJING, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) &#8212; China plans to launch lunar probe Chang&#8217;e-5 in 2017, according to the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">&#8220;The development of Chang&#8217;e-5 is proceeding smoothly,&#8221; said the administration&#8217;s spokesman Wu Zhijian at a press conference on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">The just-concluded Chang&#8217;e-3 mission marked completion of the second phase of the country&#8217;s lunar program, which includes orbiting, landing and returning to Earth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">The lunar program will enter the next stage of unmanned sampling and returning, which will include Chang&#8217;e-5 and 6 missions, according to Wu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">&#8220;The program&#8217;s third phase will be more difficult because many breakthroughs must be made in key technologies such as moon surface takeoff, sampling encapsulation, rendezvous and docking in lunar orbit, and high-speed Earth reentry, which are all new to China,&#8221; Wu said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">As the backup probe of Chang&#8217;e-3, Chang&#8217;e-4 will be adapted to verify technologies for Chang&#8217;e-5, according to Wu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) &#8212; China plans to launch lunar probe Chang&#8217;e-5 in 2017, according to the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. &#8220;The development of Chang&#8217;e-5 is proceeding smoothly,&#8221; said the administration&#8217;s spokesman Wu Zhijian at a press conference on Monday. The just-concluded Chang&#8217;e-3 mission marked completion of the second [&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-4225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225"}],"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=4225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}