{"id":5404,"date":"2011-10-13T13:20:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T05:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/tiangong-1-to-be-prepared-for-space-docking\/"},"modified":"2011-10-13T13:20:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T05:20:07","slug":"tiangong-1-to-be-prepared-for-space-docking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/tiangong-1-to-be-prepared-for-space-docking\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiangong-1 to be Prepared for Space Docking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Oct. 12 (China Space News) \u2014 Tiangong-1 space module has finished its 118 circles around the Earth as of October 7. The spacecraft is expected to enter the preparation phase to conduct China&#8217;s first space rendezvous and docking, according to Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center. <\/p>\n<p>Tiangong-1 target module was lofted to a preset orbit aboard Long March-2FT1 launch vehicle in the evening of Sept. 29. Under the direction of Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center, it made its first orbital transfer at 01:58 the next day after launch, raising its apogee altitude from 346 kilometers to 355 kilometers. The second orbital maneuver began at 16:09 when its perigee altitude was increased from 200 kilometers to 362 kilometers, sending the spacecraft into the test orbit successfully. <\/p>\n<p>Tiangong-1 space lab has basically completed in-orbit tests and will go through three or four orbital maneuvers before entering the docking orbit to dock with Shen Zhou 8 spaceship, said the Center. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Oct. 12 (China Space News) \u2014 Tiangong-1 space module has finished its 118 circles around the Earth as of October 7. The spacecraft is expected to enter the preparation phase to conduct China&#8217;s first space rendezvous and docking, according to Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center. Tiangong-1 target module was lofted to a preset orbit [&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-5404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404"}],"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=5404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}