{"id":116598,"date":"2015-01-11T11:19:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T09:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=116598"},"modified":"2015-01-11T11:20:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T09:20:46","slug":"chinas-moon-landing-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/116598-chinas-moon-landing-plan.html","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s moon landing plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s bold plan to land an unmanned spaceship on the moon before returning to Earth has moved another step forward with a test craft shifting into lunar orbit to conduct further tests.<\/p>\n<p>The service module of a lunar orbiter that flew back to Earth in November had been sitting in a position that brought in into sync with Earth&#8217;s orbit, known as the second Lagrange point. It had separated from the orbiter in November.<\/p>\n<p>China plans to land a spacecraft christened Chang&#8217;e 5 on the moon in 2017 and have it collect at least 2 kilograms (4 pounds) of rock and soil samples before returning to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>If successful, that would make China only the third country after the United States and Russia to meet such a challenge.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More tech news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/116566-e-tags-may-become-compulsory-report.html\">E-tags may become compulsory: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/116404-epic-sale-and-unbeatable-tech-deals.html\">Epic sale and unbeatable tech deals<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/energy\/116564-eskom-is-21-days-from-going-broke.html\">Eskom is 21 days from going broke<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s bold plan to land an unmanned spaceship on the moon before returning to Earth has moved another step forward<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":73050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,129,9563],"class_list":["post-116598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-china","tag-moon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}