{"id":1243689,"date":"2022-11-04T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/04\/watch-china-launches-lab-module-mengtian-as-space-station-approaches-completion\/"},"modified":"2022-11-04T11:00:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T11:00:34","slug":"watch-china-launches-lab-module-mengtian-as-space-station-approaches-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/04\/watch-china-launches-lab-module-mengtian-as-space-station-approaches-completion\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: China launches lab module Mengtian as space station approaches completion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_108\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-prod.iol.co.za\/16x9\/800?source=https:\/\/xlibris.public.prod.oc.inl.infomaker.io:8443\/opencontent\/objects\/dbb1e19d-a699-5d0e-be4b-a854e49462d0&amp;operation=CROP&amp;offset=0x37&amp;resize=750x422\" class=\"type:primaryImage\"\/><\/p>\n<p>China on Monday launched the space lab module Mengtian, taking the construction of the country\u2019s space station Tiangong into the final stage.<\/p>\n<p>The Mengtian module, flying to join the two-module combination already about 400 kilometers above Earth, is the last \u201cbuilding block\u201d that allows Tiangong to form a T-shape structure, the planned layout at the space station\u2019s completion.<\/p>\n<p>The new combination is projected to take shape after a succession of elaborately-maneuvered tasks including the docking and the subsequent in-orbit transposition.<\/p>\n<p>The Long March-5B Y4 carrier rocket, carrying Mengtian, blasted off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast of the southern island province of Hainan, according to the China Manned Space Agency.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"strong-a548d308ce6cfdf75a2d5cccd995a537\">Watch the video below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/sponsored\/watch-china-launches-lab-module-mengtian-as-space-station-approaches-completion-7301f428-b823-4636-9935-29f5563e5a46\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China on Monday launched the space lab module Mengtian, taking the construction of the country\u2019s space station Tiangong into the final stage. The Mengtian module, flying to join the two-module combination already about 400 kilometers above Earth, is the last \u201cbuilding block\u201d that allows Tiangong to form a T-shape structure, the planned layout at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}