{"id":464,"date":"2020-07-24T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/?p=464"},"modified":"2020-07-31T03:54:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T03:54:53","slug":"chinas-ambitious-tianwen-1-probe-successfully-begins-mars-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/chinas-ambitious-tianwen-1-probe-successfully-begins-mars-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s ambitious Tianwen-1 probe successfully begins Mars mission"},"content":{"rendered":"
China began its first interplanetary mission to Mars as a Long March-5 rocket, its largest launch vehicle carrying its Tianwen-1 probe, successfully lifts off Thursday, state-run Xinhua News Agency reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Chinese launch rocket blasted off from the country\u2019s Wenchang Spacecraft Launchpad in the southern island province of Hainan at 12:41 p.m. (Beijing Time) on July 23.<\/p>\n The Tianwen-1 Mars mission, if everything goes as planned, will take a seven-month journey before reaching the red planet in February 2021.<\/p>\n China\u2019s first mission is named Tianwen-1 or \u2018Questions to Heaven\u2019 which comes from a poem written by Chinese poet Qu Yuan.<\/p>\n