{"id":29550,"date":"2016-08-31T09:48:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T16:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/china-readies-next-heavenly-palace-for-mid-september-launch"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:19:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:19:22","slug":"china-readies-next-heavenly-palace-for-mid-september-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/china-readies-next-heavenly-palace-for-mid-september-launch","title":{"rendered":"China Readies Next \u2018Heavenly Palace\u2019 for Mid-September Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-readies-next-heavenly-palace-for-mid-september-launch.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China is readying its next piloted space mission, a multifaceted undertaking that will lay the foundation for the country to build a space station in Earth orbit in the 2020s.<\/p>\n<p>Both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/33428-china-readies-tiangong-2-space-lab.html\">Tiangong-2<\/a> (whose name means \u201cHeavenly Palace\u201d) and the piloted Shenzhou-11 spacecraft are now undergoing checkout at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.<\/p>\n<p>Tiangong-2, which is scheduled to launch in mid-September, is a true \u201cspace lab\u201d that will verify key technologies for building China\u2019s space station, according to its chief designer, Zhu Zongpeng. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/topics\/latest-news-china-space-program\">Latest News About China\u2019s Space Program<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/33911-china-readies-tiangong-2-human-spaceflight-mission.html#sthash.vEeNztKw.gbpl&st_refDomain=&st_refQuery=\">http:\/\/www.space.com\/33911-china-readies-tiangong-2-human-sp..._refQuery=<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is readying its next piloted space mission, a multifaceted undertaking that will lay the foundation for the country to build a space station in Earth orbit in the 2020s. Both Tiangong-2 (whose name means \u201cHeavenly Palace\u201d) and the piloted Shenzhou-11 spacecraft are now undergoing checkout at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29550","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66382,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29550\/revisions\/66382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}