{"id":4248,"date":"2013-08-29T11:35:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T11:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-to-launch-lunar-probe-for-landing-mission\/"},"modified":"2013-08-29T11:35:35","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T11:35:35","slug":"china-to-launch-lunar-probe-for-landing-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-to-launch-lunar-probe-for-landing-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"China to Launch Lunar Probe for Landing Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">BEIJING, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) &#8212; China&#8217;s Chang&#8217;e-3 lunar probe is scheduled to be launched at the end of this year for a moon landing mission, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chang&#8217;e-3 has officially entered its launch stage, following its research and manufacture period,&#8221; said a statement released by the administration after Wednesday&#8217;s meeting on the mission.<\/p>\n<p>The mission will see a Chinese space probe land on a celestial body for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The Chang&#8217;e-3 mission is the second phase of China&#8217;s lunar program which includes orbiting, landing and returning to Earth, following the successes of the Chang&#8217;e-2 missions, which include plotting a high-resolution, full-coverage lunar map.<\/p>\n<p>Chang&#8217;e-3&#8217;s carrier rocket has successfully gone through its first test while the launch pad, control and ground application systems are ready for the mission.<\/p>\n<p>Chang&#8217;e-3 will be launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) &#8212; China&#8217;s Chang&#8217;e-3 lunar probe is scheduled to be launched at the end of this year for a moon landing mission, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence announced on Wednesday. &#8220;Chang&#8217;e-3 has officially entered its launch stage, following its research and manufacture period,&#8221; said a statement [&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-4248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248"}],"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=4248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}