{"id":79654,"date":"2018-06-15T22:22:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T05:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/chinese-satellite-snags-new-views-of-earth-from-lunar-orbit"},"modified":"2018-06-21T00:07:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T07:07:03","slug":"chinese-satellite-snags-new-views-of-earth-from-lunar-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/chinese-satellite-snags-new-views-of-earth-from-lunar-orbit","title":{"rendered":"Chinese satellite snags new views of Earth from lunar orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-satellite-snags-new-views-of-earth-from-lunar-orbit2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On May 20, China launched <a href=\"https:\/\/gbtimes.com\/china-launches-queqiao-relay-satellite-to-support-change-4-lunar-far-side-landing-mission\" target=\"_blank\">Queqiao, a lunar communications relay satellite<\/a> for the upcoming Chang\u2019e 4 lander and rover mission. On the way out to the Moon, it dropped off a pair of small satellites bound for lunar orbit called Longjiang-1 and Longjiang-2. The satellites weigh just 45 kilograms each and measure 50-by-50-by-40 centimeters. Their purpose is testing out future radio astronomy and interferometry techniques, and one also has a camera built by Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Longjiang-1 had a problem and didn\u2019t make it into lunar orbit. Longjiang-2, however, was successful, and sent home a few pictures! Check them out:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/planetary.org\/blogs\/jason-davis\/2018\/20180614-longjiang-2-earth-pics.html\">http:\/\/planetary.org\/blogs\/jason-davis\/2018\/20180614-longjiang-2-earth-pics.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 20, China launched Queqiao, a lunar communications relay satellite for the upcoming Chang\u2019e 4 lander and rover mission. On the way out to the Moon, it dropped off a pair of small satellites bound for lunar orbit called Longjiang-1 and Longjiang-2. The satellites weigh just 45 kilograms each and measure 50-by-50-by-40 centimeters. Their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79654","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79805,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79654\/revisions\/79805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}