{"id":84174,"date":"2011-09-29T22:02:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T14:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-to-send-unmanned-tiangong-1-module-into-orbit\/"},"modified":"2011-09-29T22:02:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T14:02:43","slug":"china-to-send-unmanned-tiangong-1-module-into-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-to-send-unmanned-tiangong-1-module-into-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"China to Send Unmanned Tiangong-1 Module into Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[09-29-11] China is set to launch the country\u2019s first space laboratory module from the <b>Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center<\/b>, as part of its effort to build its own space station, Chinese officials confirmed Sept. 27.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;The module, Tiangong-1, is currently being injected into a Long March 2-F T1 rocket carrier. The Tiangong-1 mission had been delayed due to a Long March carrier 2C rocket malfunction, which failed to send an experimental satellite into orbit in August. The Tiangong-1 mission was rescheduled to allow engineers time to fix any related problems.<br \/>\nChinese space officials also confirmed that an unmanned Shenzhou 8 spaceship would be launched in early November to rendezvous and dock with Tiangong-1.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;Xinhua Launch Center Chief Engineer Lu Jinrong said that if the mission succeeds, then the module will dock with Shenzhou 9 and Shenzhou 10 in 2012 \u2013 both of which will have at least one astronaut on board.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cThis is a significant test. We\u2019ve never done such a thing before,\u201d said Jinrong. \u201cTiangong is bigger and heavier than the Shenzhou spaceships China had developed as a means of transporting astronauts from the Earth to space.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[09-29-11] China is set to launch the country\u2019s first space laboratory module from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, as part of its effort to build its own space station, Chinese officials confirmed Sept. 27. &nbsp; &nbsp;The module, Tiangong-1, is currently being injected into a Long March 2-F T1 rocket carrier. The Tiangong-1 mission had been [&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-84174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84174"}],"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=84174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}