{"id":3890,"date":"2017-04-17T19:29:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T19:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=3890"},"modified":"2017-04-17T19:29:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T19:29:01","slug":"china-launch-first-cargo-spacecraft-space-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/04\/17\/china-launch-first-cargo-spacecraft-space-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"China to launch its first cargo spacecraft for space lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China is set to launch its first cargo spacecraft between April 20 and 24, an official statement said on Monday.<!--more-->The Tianzhou-1 was transferred with a Long March-7 Y2 carrier rocket from the testing centre to the launch zone in Wenchang, Hainan province, the office of China\u2019s manned space programme said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe completion of the transfer signals the Tianzhou-1 mission has entered its launching stage,\u201d the People\u2019s Daily quoted the office\u2019s statement as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Technicians have performed several tests during the assembling of the spacecraft and rocket since February.<\/p>\n<p>In the following days, technicians will continue the testing and inject fuel before the launch, the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>Tianzhou-1 is the first cargo ship independently developed by China, reports the People\u2019s Daily.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected to dock with the orbiting Tiangong-2 space lab and conduct in-orbit refuelling.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>IANS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Picture source: Alamy Image<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Picture used for illustrative purposes alone<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is set to launch its first cargo spacecraft between April 20 and 24, an official statement said on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3892,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890\/revisions\/3892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}