{"id":4675,"date":"2010-10-13T17:08:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T17:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinas-second-lunar-probe-expected-to-have-enough-fuel-to-return-to-earth\/"},"modified":"2010-10-13T17:08:41","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T17:08:41","slug":"chinas-second-lunar-probe-expected-to-have-enough-fuel-to-return-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinas-second-lunar-probe-expected-to-have-enough-fuel-to-return-to-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s second lunar probe expected to have enough fuel to return to earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s second unmanned lunar probe, Chang&#8217;e-2, is expected to have enough fuel to fly back to earth, the vice chief-designer of the Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC) said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Chang&#8217;e-2 was carried into lunar orbit by a rocket, and only corrected once during the transfer from earth orbit to lunar orbit, so a large amount of fuel will be left after its mission, Zhou Jianliang, the vice chief-designer of BACC, said.<\/p>\n<p>Zhou said there are three possible &#8220;fates&#8221; for Chang&#8217;e-2 after it finishes its six-month mission: landing on the moon; flying to outer space; or returning to earth. The fate of Chang&#8217;e-2 will be decided according to its condition when the mission is complete.<\/p>\n<p>The Long March-3C carrier rocket took Chang&#8217;e-2 into space from southwest China on Oct. 1. The probe completed its final braking on Oct. 9 and is now orbiting the moon at a 100 km-high orbit. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s second unmanned lunar probe, Chang&#8217;e-2, is expected to have enough fuel to fly back to earth, the vice chief-designer of the Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC) said Tuesday. Chang&#8217;e-2 was carried into lunar orbit by a rocket, and only corrected once during the transfer from earth orbit to lunar orbit, so a large amount [&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-4675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675"}],"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=4675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}