{"id":4566,"date":"2015-09-21T14:12:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T14:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-to-rehearse-new-carrier-rocket-for-lunar-mission\/"},"modified":"2015-09-21T14:12:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T14:12:59","slug":"china-to-rehearse-new-carrier-rocket-for-lunar-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-to-rehearse-new-carrier-rocket-for-lunar-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"China to rehearse new carrier rocket for lunar mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                                           \u3000\u3000A Long March-5 carrier rocket on Sunday was shipped from North China&#8217;s Tianjin port for a rehearsal of a scheduled Chang&#8217;e-5 lunar mission around 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u3000\u3000It will be the first drill carried out in a launch site that involves both the carrier rocket and a probe, said the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. It did not locate the launch site.<\/p>\n<p>\u3000\u3000The Long March-5 carrier rocket was designed by China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology with the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. It is scheduled to make its first trial flight in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u3000\u3000With a payload capacity of 14 tonnes to geostationary transfer orbit, the largest carrying capacity in China, the rocket will greatly increase China&#8217;s ability to enter space.<\/p>\n<p>\u3000\u3000China plans to launch its Chang&#8217;e-5 lunar probe carried by the Long March-5 carrier rocket around 2017 to finish the last chapter in China&#8217;s three-step (orbiting, landing and return) moon exploration program.<\/p>\n<p>\u3000\u3000Chang&#8217;e-5 is expected to achieve several breakthroughs, including automatic sampling, ascending from the moon without a launch site and an unmanned docking 400,000 kilometers above the lunar surface.(Xinhua) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u3000\u3000A Long March-5 carrier rocket on Sunday was shipped from North China&#8217;s Tianjin port for a rehearsal of a scheduled Chang&#8217;e-5 lunar mission around 2017. \u3000\u3000It will be the first drill carried out in a launch site that involves both the carrier rocket and a probe, said the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry [&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-4566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566"}],"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=4566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}