| The probe was launched in 2007 and mapped the moon’s surface<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n A Chinese lunar probe has crashed into the moon in what Beijing has called a controlled collision.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Chang’e 1 lunar satellite hit the moon’s surface at 1613 local time (0813 GMT) at the end of a 16-month moon-mapping mission.<\/p>\n China launched the spacecraft in late October 2007 on a mission to survey the entire surface of the moon.<\/p>\n China’s ever-more ambitious space programme includes plans for a space station and landing a man on the moon.<\/p>\n Future missions<\/strong><\/p>\n Launched into space on one of China’s Long March 3A rockets, the probe mapped the moon’s surface using stereo radar.<\/p>\n Chang’e 1 was under the remote control of two stations in Qingda, eastern China, and Kashgar in the north-west of the country, the Xinhua news agency said.<\/p>\n China became only the third nation – after the Soviet Union and the US – to put a manned spacecraft in orbit in 2003.<\/p>\n State media said on Sunday China would launch a space module next year and carry out the country’s first space docking.<\/p>\n “The module, called Tiangong-1, will provide a “safe room” for Chinese astronauts to live and conduct scientific research in zero gravity,” Chinese state media said.<\/p>\n “Weighing about 8.5 tonnes, Tiangong-1 is able to perform a long-term unattended operation, which will be an essential step toward building a space station,” it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chinese probe crashes into moon The probe was launched in 2007 and mapped the moon’s surface A Chinese lunar probe has crashed into the moon in what Beijing has called a controlled collision. The Chang’e 1 lunar satellite hit the moon’s surface at 1613 local time (0813 GMT) at the end of a 16-month moon-mapping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":672692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[845],"tags":[9733],"class_list":["post-9695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scitech","tag-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |