{"id":34494,"date":"2017-02-13T11:44:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T19:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/heres-a-glimpse-of-chinas-new-tianzhou-1-cargo-spacecraft"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:52:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:52:46","slug":"heres-a-glimpse-of-chinas-new-tianzhou-1-cargo-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/heres-a-glimpse-of-chinas-new-tianzhou-1-cargo-spacecraft","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s a glimpse of China\u2019s new Tianzhou-1 cargo spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y7wHncWdCkc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A state media video report offers rare footage of China\u2019s Tianzhou-1 cargo and resupply spacecraft, which will launch in April to test refuelling technology needed for the country\u2019s plan for a large space station.<\/p>\n<p>The video shows what is China\u2019s first such spacecraft undergoing development and testing at the AIT facility in Tianjin, North China, as well as 3D renderings of Tianzhou-1 docking with the Tiangong-2 space lab.<\/p>\n<p>The main objective of the Tianzhou-1 mission is to test and verify on-orbit transfer of liquid propellant in microgravity to <a href=\"http:\/\/gbtimes.com\/china\/backgrounder-chinas-tiangong-2-space-lab\">Tiangong-2<\/a>, which late last year hosted two astronauts for China\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/gbtimes.com\/china\/chinas-crewed-shenzhou-11-spacecraft-docks-tiangong-2-space-lab\">longest human spaceflight mission<\/a> so far.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gbtimes.com\/china\/heres-glimpse-chinas-new-tianzhou-1-cargo-spacecraft\">http:\/\/gbtimes.com\/china\/heres-glimpse-chinas-new-tianzhou-1-cargo-spacecraft<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A state media video report offers rare footage of China\u2019s Tianzhou-1 cargo and resupply spacecraft, which will launch in April to test refuelling technology needed for the country\u2019s plan for a large space station. The video shows what is China\u2019s first such spacecraft undergoing development and testing at the AIT facility in Tianjin, North 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":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34494","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=34494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48919,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34494\/revisions\/48919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}