{"id":722,"date":"2024-04-29T09:29:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T01:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/?p=722"},"modified":"2024-04-29T09:29:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T01:29:25","slug":"china-prepares-to-launch-change-6-lunar-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/china-prepares-to-launch-change-6-lunar-probe.html","title":{"rendered":"China prepares to launch Chang&#8217;e-6 lunar probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WENCHANG, Hainan, April 27 (Xinhua) &#8212; The Chang&#8217;e-6 lunar probe is scheduled for launch at an appropriate time at the beginning of May, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA).<\/p>\n<p>The combination of the Chang&#8217;e-6 lunar probe and the Long March-5 Y8 carrier rocket was transferred vertically on Saturday to the launching area at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China&#8217;s Hainan Province, the CNSA said.<\/p>\n<p>The combination on a removable launch pad was moved out of the vertical test building, and then safely transported to its launching area.<\/p>\n<p>The functional checks, the joint test work and the propellant filling will be carried out before the launch.<\/p>\n<p>After Chang&#8217;e 6 lunar probe and the Long March-5 Y8 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, marking a mission that will be the first of its kind in human history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WENCHANG, Hainan, April 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}