{"id":568,"date":"2013-12-19T08:15:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T08:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/wordpress\/?p=568"},"modified":"2013-12-20T09:11:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T09:11:06","slug":"chinese-lunar-mission-will-add-to-global-knowledge-of-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/?p=568","title":{"rendered":"Chinese lunar mission will add to global knowledge of the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_569\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-569\" style=\"width: 358px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/lunarrobotics.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-569  \" alt=\"lunarrobotics\" src=\"http:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/lunarrobotics.jpg\" width=\"358\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click on the robotic missions info-graphic to enlarge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the November meeting of the ISECG, representatives from the China National Space Administration (CNSA) shared plans for the lunar exploration mission Chang&#8217;e-3, subsequent robotic missions to the Moon and Mars and the Chinese space station programme.<\/p>\n<p>Chang\u2019e 3 launched on 2 December 2013 and landed on the Moon on 14 December 2013, marking the first time a Chinese spacecraft has soft-landed on the surface of an extra-terrestrial body.\u00a0 The lunar lander and rover will conduct scientific investigation of the Moon using a suite of instruments. \u00a0The mission is part of China\u2019s unmanned lunar exploration programme and will be followed by the return of lunar samples to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the planned robotic missions of other ISECG participating agencies, the Chinese missions are depicted in the info-graphic below.\u00a0 Each mission is expected to contribute information important to planning and risk reduction for future international human missions.<\/p>\n<p>CNSA participated in the development of the Global Exploration Strategy in 2007 and has been a member of ISECG since its inception.\u00a0 CNSA will recommend experts to the Exploration Roadmap Working Group of ISECG and expects to participate actively in ISECG activities in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>To download the recently released Global Exploration Roadmap, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/GER_2013.pdf\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the November meeting of the ISECG, representatives from the China National Space Administration (CNSA) shared plans for the lunar exploration mission<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/?p=568\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}