{"id":52078,"date":"2017-04-18T04:02:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T11:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/chinas-first-robotic-resupply-freighter-transferred-to-launch-pad"},"modified":"2017-06-04T06:14:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T13:14:50","slug":"chinas-first-robotic-resupply-freighter-transferred-to-launch-pad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/chinas-first-robotic-resupply-freighter-transferred-to-launch-pad","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s first robotic resupply freighter transferred to launch pad"},"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\/HVvKBNx-LCo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Chinese engineers rolled out a Long March 7 rocket to a seaside launch complex on Hainan Island in the South China Sea on Monday, aiming to fire a robotic refueling freighter into orbit as soon as Thursday to test technology for China\u2019s future space station.<\/p>\n<p>The Tianzhou 1 spacecraft mounted on top of the 174-foot-tall (53-meter) Long March 7 launcher will dock with the Tiangong 2 space lab around two days after liftoff, the first of three linkups planned during the cargo carrier\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese officials said the automated mission is due to launch some time between Thursday and next Monday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2017\/04\/17\/chinas-first-robotic-resupply-freighter-transferred-to-launch-pad\/\">https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2017\/04\/17\/chinas-first-robotic-r...aunch-pad\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese engineers rolled out a Long March 7 rocket to a seaside launch complex on Hainan Island in the South China Sea on Monday, aiming to fire a robotic refueling freighter into orbit as soon as Thursday to test technology for China\u2019s future space station. The Tianzhou 1 spacecraft mounted on top of the 174-foot-tall [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52078","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=52078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58040,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52078\/revisions\/58040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}