{"id":757900,"date":"2023-06-13T14:53:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T18:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=757900"},"modified":"2023-06-13T14:53:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T18:53:03","slug":"china-is-trying-to-stop-its-boosters-from-randomly-crashing-into-villages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=757900","title":{"rendered":"China is trying to stop its boosters from randomly crashing into villages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s space program has advanced by leaps and bounds in a relatively short time. However, it has suffered some bad publicity in recent years due to certain &#8220;uncontrolled reentries&#8221; (aka crashes). On multiple occasions, spent first stages have fallen back to Earth, posing a potential threat to populated areas and prompting backlash from NASA and the ESA, who claimed China was taking &#8220;unnecessary risks.&#8221; To curb the risk caused by spent first stages, China has developed a parachute system that can guide fallen rocket boosters to predetermined landing zones.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-06-china-boosters-randomly-villages.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">China is trying to stop its boosters from randomly crashing into villages<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s space program has advanced by leaps and bounds in a relatively short time. However, it has suffered some bad publicity in recent years due to certain &#8220;uncontrolled reentries&#8221; (aka&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=757900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}