{"id":1621,"date":"2024-04-27T09:06:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T09:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phoenix-24.kz\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2024-04-27T09:06:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T09:06:36","slug":"china-to-launch-chang-e-6-lunar-probe-in-early-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoenix-24.kz\/?p=1621&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"China to launch Chang&#8217;e-6 lunar probe in early May"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1625\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1625\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1625 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/phoenix-24.kz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/knr-lunnyj-zond-zapusk.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phoenix-24.kz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/knr-lunnyj-zond-zapusk.png 1000w, https:\/\/phoenix-24.kz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/knr-lunnyj-zond-zapusk-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/phoenix-24.kz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/knr-lunnyj-zond-zapusk-768x515.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1625\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Xinhua<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>China will launch the Chang&#8217;e-6 lunar probe in early May, China Media Group learned from the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Saturday, Phoenix 24 reports with reference to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.cgtn.com\/news\/2024-04-27\/China-to-launch-Chang-e-6-lunar-probe-in-early-May-1t8uVrIEUjC\/p.html\">CGTN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Chang&#8217;e-6 lunar probe and Long March-5 Y8 carrier rocket were transferred to the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern province of Hainan on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Functional checks, joint test work and propellant filling will be carried out before the launch.<\/p>\n<p>After the lunar probe and carrier rocket arrived at the launch site in January and March, respectively, the assembly, testing and other preparations were successively completed.<\/p>\n<p>The probe is set to collect samples from the far side of the moon in a mission that will be the first of its kind in human history.<\/p>\n<p>The Chang&#8217;e-7 is scheduled to be launched around 2026, and Chang&#8217;e-8 around 2028. Chang&#8217;e-7 and Chang&#8217;e-8 will form the basic model for a lunar research station to carry out further exploration of the lunar environment, according to CNSA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China will launch the Chang&#8217;e-6 lunar probe in early May, China Media Group learned from the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Saturday, Phoenix 24 reports with reference to CGTN. The Chang&#8217;e-6 lunar probe and Long March-5 Y8 carrier rocket were transferred to the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern province of Hainan on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[1234,792,1232,1236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenix-24.kz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenix-24.kz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenix-24.kz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenix-24.kz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenix-24.kz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phoenix-24.kz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1629,"href":"https:\/\/phoenix-24.kz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions\/1629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenix-24.kz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenix-24.kz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenix-24.kz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenix-24.kz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}