{"id":107648,"date":"2020-05-25T20:43:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T03:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/china-set-to-launch-mars-probe-and-rover-mission-in-july"},"modified":"2020-05-25T20:43:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T03:43:54","slug":"china-set-to-launch-mars-probe-and-rover-mission-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/china-set-to-launch-mars-probe-and-rover-mission-in-july","title":{"rendered":"China set to launch Mars probe and rover mission in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-set-to-launch-mars-probe-and-rover-mission-in-july2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s space program will launch a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/mars\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" >Mars<\/a> mission in July, according to its current plans. This will include deploying an orbital probe to study the red planet, and a robotic, remotely-controlled rover for surface exploration. The U.S. has also been planning another robotic rover mission for Mars, and it\u2019s set to take off this summer, too \u2013 peak time for an optimal transit from Earth to Mars thanks to their relative orbits around the Sun.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the first rover mission to Mars for China\u2019s space program, and is one of the many ways that it\u2019s aiming to better compete with <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/nasa\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" >NASA\u2019s<\/a> space exploration efforts. NASA has flown four previous Mars rover missions, and its fifth, with an updated rover called \u2018Perseverance,\u2019 is set to take place this years with a goal of making a rendezvous with Mars sometime in February 2021.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s mission also <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/04\/16\/nasa-reveals-ambitious-multi-spacecraft-plan-to-bring-a-piece-of-mars-back-to-earth\/\">includes an ambitious rock sample return plan<\/a>, which will include the first powered spacecraft launch from the red planet to bring that back. The U.S. space agency is also sending the <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/04\/30\/heres-what-nasas-mars-helicopter-will-look-like-when-it-makes-history-with-the-first-extraterrestrial-powered-flight\/\">first atmospheric aerial vehicle to Mars on this mission<\/a>, a helicopter drone that will be used for short flights to collect additional data from above the planet\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s space program will launch a Mars mission in July, according to its current plans. This will include deploying an orbital probe to study the red planet, and a robotic, remotely-controlled rover for surface exploration. The U.S. has also been planning another robotic rover mission for Mars, and it\u2019s set to take off this summer, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}