{"id":44137,"date":"2024-12-31T05:18:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T05:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=44137"},"modified":"2024-12-31T06:53:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T06:53:10","slug":"rocket-blasts-off-for-indias-first-space-docking-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=44137","title":{"rendered":"Rocket blasts off for India&#8217;s first space-docking mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An Indian-made rocket has blasted off from a site north of Chennai, carrying two satellites which will test space-docking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Docking is crucial for manned travel to the Moon or supporting a space station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Announcing &#8220;the successful accomplishment&#8221; of the launch, Indian Space Research Organisation chief Sreedhara Somanath said the rocket had &#8220;placed the satellites in the right orbit&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India hopes to become only the fourth country with such technology, after Russia, the United States and China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi has previously announced plans to send a person to the Moon by 2040.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: An Indian-made rocket has blasted off from a site north of Chennai, carrying two satellites which will test space-docking. Docking is crucial for manned travel to the Moon or supporting a space station. Announcing &#8220;the successful accomplishment&#8221; of the launch, Indian Space Research Organisation chief Sreedhara Somanath said the rocket had &#8220;placed the satellites in the right orbit&#8221;. India hopes to become only the fourth country with such technology, after Russia, the United States and China. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has previously announced plans to send a person to the Moon by 2040.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44141,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44137\/revisions\/44141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}