{"id":135942,"date":"2025-09-05T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=135942"},"modified":"2025-09-05T14:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:00:07","slug":"china-pulled-off-high-orbit-refuelling-and-may-beat-us-to-moon-ex-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=135942","title":{"rendered":"China pulled off high-orbit refuelling and may beat US to moon, ex-officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina appears to have pulled off not only the first satellite-to-satellite refuelling in geosynchronous orbit, but also the \u201clargest single manoeuvre\u201d ever seen in that orbit, according to a former US Space Command official.<br \/>\nThe two spacecraft \u2013 the Shijian-21 and Shijian-25 \u2013 have been docked some 36,000km (22,370 miles) above Earth since early July. Their mysterious mission was widely believed to involve the Shijian-25 supplying the Shijian-21 with propellant.<br \/>\nLast month, they executed what&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3324468\/china-pulled-high-orbit-refuelling-and-may-beat-us-moon-ex-space-officials-say?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina appears to have pulled off not only the first satellite-to-satellite refuelling in geosynchronous orbit, but also the \u201clargest single manoeuvre\u201d ever seen in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135942"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}