{"id":171540,"date":"2023-09-07T15:24:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T20:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/japan-launches-rocket-carrying-lunar-lander-and-x-ray-telescope-to-explore-origins-of-universe"},"modified":"2023-09-07T15:24:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T20:24:35","slug":"japan-launches-rocket-carrying-lunar-lander-and-x-ray-telescope-to-explore-origins-of-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/japan-launches-rocket-carrying-lunar-lander-and-x-ray-telescope-to-explore-origins-of-universe","title":{"rendered":"Japan launches rocket carrying lunar lander and X-ray telescope to explore origins of universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japan-launches-rocket-carrying-lunar-lander-and-x-ray-telescope-to-explore-origins-of-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOKYO (AP) \u2014 Japan launched a rocket Thursday carrying an X-ray telescope that will explore the origins of the universe as well as a small lunar lander.<\/p>\n<p>The launch of the HII-A rocket from Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan was shown on live video by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, known as JAXA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a liftoff,\u201d the narrator at JAXA said as the rocket flew up in a burst of smoke then flew over the Pacific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO (AP) \u2014 Japan launched a rocket Thursday carrying an X-ray telescope that will explore the origins of the universe as well as a small lunar lander. The launch of the HII-A rocket from Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan was shown on live video by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, known as JAXA. \u201cWe [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171540","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}