{"id":4345,"date":"2024-03-17T14:31:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T14:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rocket-carrying-chinas-queqiao-2-relay-satellite-transported-to-launchpad\/"},"modified":"2024-03-17T14:31:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T14:31:46","slug":"rocket-carrying-chinas-queqiao-2-relay-satellite-transported-to-launchpad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rocket-carrying-chinas-queqiao-2-relay-satellite-transported-to-launchpad\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket carrying China&#8217;s Queqiao-2 relay satellite transported to launchpad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >A Long March-8 rocket carrying China&#8217;s Queqiao-2 (Magpie Bridge-2) relay satellite has been vertically transported to its launchpad at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China&#8217;s Hainan Province, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p >The Queqiao-2 relay satellite and the Long March-8 Y3 carrier rocket completed various preparations, such as assembly and testing, after arriving at the launch site in February. The launch mission will be carried out after completing pre-launch work, including rocket functional checks, joint tests, and propellant filling.<\/p>\n<p >The relay satellite, an upgraded version of the Queqiao satellite, will enable communication between China&#8217;s lunar rover and the ground station, providing relay support for the Chang&#8217;e-6, Chang&#8217;e-7, and Chang&#8217;e-8 missions.<\/p>\n<p >The Long March-8 carrier rocket, powered by green and environmentally friendly liquid propellant, is China&#8217;s new generation of medium-lift rocket. It is capable of sending spacecraft weighing 3 to 5 tonnes into sun-synchronous orbit.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Long March-8 rocket carrying China&#8217;s Queqiao-2 (Magpie Bridge-2) relay satellite has been vertically transported to its launchpad at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China&#8217;s Hainan Province, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Sunday. The Queqiao-2 relay satellite and the Long March-8 Y3 carrier rocket completed various preparations, such as [&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-4345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345"}],"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=4345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}