{"id":32218,"date":"2016-11-26T14:48:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T22:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/china-invents-space-gps-for-mars-expedition-and-interplanetary-travel"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:01:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:01:23","slug":"china-invents-space-gps-for-mars-expedition-and-interplanetary-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/china-invents-space-gps-for-mars-expedition-and-interplanetary-travel","title":{"rendered":"China Invents Space GPS For Mars Expedition And Interplanetary Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-invents-space-gps-for-mars-expedition-and-interplanetary-travel.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China launched a satellite this month that may be the key to a successful manned Mars mission and eventual colonization of the red planet beating out a similar NASA system scheduled to launch next year.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s first X-ray navigation satellite acts like a GPS guidance system for spacecraft traveling beyond low Earth orbit and is intended to help China put rovers on the moon and Mars.<\/p>\n<p>The X-ray Pulsar Navigation 1 (XPNAV) satellite measures radiation emitted by pulsars to pinpoint the exact <a href=\"https:\/\/news.vice.com\/story\/china-may-have-just-solved-one-of-the-big-challenges-of-deep-space-travel\">location of a spacecraft<\/a>, John Pye, manager of the Space Research Centre at the University of Leicester, told <em>VICE News.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/3746597\/china-invents-space-gps-for-mars-expedition-and-interplanetary-travel\/\">http:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/3746597\/china-invents-space-gps-for...ry-travel\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China launched a satellite this month that may be the key to a successful manned Mars mission and eventual colonization of the red planet beating out a similar NASA system scheduled to launch next year. The world\u2019s first X-ray navigation satellite acts like a GPS guidance system for spacecraft traveling beyond low Earth orbit and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32218","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=32218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65700,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32218\/revisions\/65700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}