{"id":85750,"date":"2018-12-12T14:23:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T22:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/change-4-successfully-enters-lunar-orbit"},"modified":"2018-12-12T14:23:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T22:23:12","slug":"change-4-successfully-enters-lunar-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/change-4-successfully-enters-lunar-orbit","title":{"rendered":"Chang\u2019e-4 Successfully Enters Lunar Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/change-4-successfully-enters-lunar-orbit3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next stop: the Lunar Farside<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s Chang\u2019e-4 lunar mission, the first-ever soft-landing endeavor on the lunar farside, launched successfully on 8 December at 02:23 Beijing time (7 December at 18:23 UTC) via a Long March 3B rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center. The launch carried a lander and a rover toward the Moon. On 12 December at 8:45 Beijing time (16:45 UTC), the spacecraft arrived in lunar orbit, preparing for a landing in early January.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/multimedia\/space-images\/spacecraft\/change-4-lander-and-rover.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Chang'e-4 lander and rover\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/change-4-successfully-enters-lunar-orbit2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/guest-blogs\/2018\/change-4-lunar-orbit.html\">http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/guest-blogs\/2018\/change-4-lunar-orbit.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next stop: the Lunar Farside China\u2019s Chang\u2019e-4 lunar mission, the first-ever soft-landing endeavor on the lunar farside, launched successfully on 8 December at 02:23 Beijing time (7 December at 18:23 UTC) via a Long March 3B rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center. The launch carried a lander and a rover toward the Moon. On 12 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85750","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=85750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}