{"id":4229,"date":"2013-12-09T09:20:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T09:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/planned-orbit-trim-for-change-3-canceled\/"},"modified":"2013-12-09T09:20:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T09:20:46","slug":"planned-orbit-trim-for-change-3-canceled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/planned-orbit-trim-for-change-3-canceled\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Orbit Trim for Chang&#8217;e-3 Canceled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">BEIJING, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) &#8212; Chinese lunar probe Chang&#8217;e-3 will not perform a planned third trimming of its trajectory along the earth-moon transfer orbit, according to the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">Chang&#8217;e-3, which is carrying moon rover &#8220;Yutu&#8221; (Jade Rabbit), was successfully launched early Monday morning from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">&#8220;The probe&#8217;s carrier, an enhanced Long March-3B rocket, entered the orbit with comparatively high precision, and the first two orbital trimmings were highly exact, which resulted in the probe being capable of meeting the demands of near-moon deceleration and follow-up orbital control,&#8221; said a statement released Thursday by the administration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">Noting good adaptability in the flying control plan for Chang&#8217;e-3, the statement added that &#8220;it has been decided that a third orbital trimming is not necessary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 1em\">If all goes well, the Chang&#8217;e-3 mission will mark the first time for China to send a spacecraft to soft-land on the surface of an extraterrestrial body, where it will conduct surveys of the Moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) &#8212; Chinese lunar probe Chang&#8217;e-3 will not perform a planned third trimming of its trajectory along the earth-moon transfer orbit, according to the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. Chang&#8217;e-3, which is carrying moon rover &#8220;Yutu&#8221; (Jade Rabbit), was successfully launched early Monday morning from the Xichang [&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-4229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229"}],"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=4229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}