{"id":4517,"date":"2016-07-13T15:10:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T15:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-launches-space-tracking-ship-yuanwang-7\/"},"modified":"2016-07-13T15:10:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T15:10:43","slug":"china-launches-space-tracking-ship-yuanwang-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-launches-space-tracking-ship-yuanwang-7\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches space tracking ship Yuanwang-7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Arial\">China&#8217;s new generation of space tracking ship, the Yuanwang-7, which will perform maritime tracking of manned spaceflight Shenzhou-11 and other space missions later this year, was formally launched on July 12 after a 60-day trial period.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\">The vessel, designed by China, marks a new high for China&#8217;s space tracking technology, said a statement.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\">The construction of the ship started on Oct. 10, 2014 in Jiangnan Shipyard (Group) Co., Ltd. The 220 meter-long, 40 meter-high ship has a displacement of 25,000 tons. Capable of resisting strong typhoons, the ship can carry supplies to last for 100 days, the statement said.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\">China boasts a fleet of seven Yuanwang space tracking ships, which have carried out some 70 expeditions and traveled more than 1.5 million nautical miles in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\">Shenzhou-11 will carry two astronauts to dock with Tiangong-2, China&#8217;s second orbiting space lab to be launched in the fall. The docking is expected to allow two astronauts to live in space for up to 30 days.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\">The Yuanwang-1 and Yuanwang-2 ships, China&#8217;s first-generation space tracking vessels, were launched in 1979, making China the fourth country to master space tracking technology after the United States, Russia and France.\uff08Xinhua)<\/font><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s new generation of space tracking ship, the Yuanwang-7, which will perform maritime tracking of manned spaceflight Shenzhou-11 and other space missions later this year, was formally launched on July 12 after a 60-day trial period. The vessel, designed by China, marks a new high for China&#8217;s space tracking technology, said a statement. The construction [&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-4517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517"}],"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=4517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}