{"id":2908,"date":"2019-07-12T05:30:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T20:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2019\/jul\/11\/spacewatch-india-prepares-to-launch-chandrayaan-2-moon-mission"},"modified":"2019-07-12T05:30:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T20:30:05","slug":"spacewatch-india-prepares-to-launch-chandrayaan-2-moon-mission-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=2908","title":{"rendered":"Spacewatch: India prepares to launch Chandrayaan 2 moon mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If successful, India will become fourth country to soft-land on moon after Russia, US and China<\/p>\n<p>India is making final preparations for the launch this Sunday of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isro.gov.in\/chandrayaan2-home-0\">Chandrayaan 2<\/a> moon mission. The spacecraft will take two months to cruise to the moon. Following its arrival, it will manoeuvre into a circular orbit just 62 miles (100km) above the lunar surface. It will then deploy the Vikram lander early in September.<\/p>\n<p>This will be India\u2019s first attempt at a soft landing on the moon. If successful, it will make the country the fourth to achieve such a feat, after Russia, the US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2019\/jan\/03\/china-probe-change-4-land-far-side-moon-basin-crater\">and China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2019\/jul\/11\/spacewatch-india-prepares-to-launch-chandrayaan-2-moon-mission\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If successful, India will become fourth country to soft-land on moon after Russia, US and ChinaIndia is making final preparations for the launch this Sunday of the Chandrayaan 2 moon mission. The spacecraft will take two months to cruise to the moon. F&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,299,61,295,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-science","category-south-and-central-asia","category-the-moon","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2910,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions\/2910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}