{"id":121891,"date":"2021-04-24T06:23:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T13:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/china-rolls-out-long-march-5b-rocket-for-space-station-launch"},"modified":"2021-04-24T06:23:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T13:23:29","slug":"china-rolls-out-long-march-5b-rocket-for-space-station-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/china-rolls-out-long-march-5b-rocket-for-space-station-launch","title":{"rendered":"China rolls out Long March 5B rocket for space station launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-rolls-out-long-march-5b-rocket-for-space-station-launch2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HELSINKI \u2014 China is set to launch the first module for its own space station next week after rolling out a Long March 5B rocket at Wenchang spaceport late Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The 53.7-meter-long Long March 5B is now expected to launch the 22-ton Tianhe space station core module around April 29, although authorities have not officially released a launch time.<\/p>\n<p>The launch will mark the beginning of an intense construction phase for the three-module space station. China plans <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJ_FI\/status\/1384795112794955776\">11 major launches<\/a> of modules, cargo and crewed spacecraft across 2021\u201322.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HELSINKI \u2014 China is set to launch the first module for its own space station next week after rolling out a Long March 5B rocket at Wenchang spaceport late Thursday. The 53.7-meter-long Long March 5B is now expected to launch the 22-ton Tianhe space station core module around April 29, although authorities have not officially [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121891","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}