· 2020-12-04 · Source: Xinhua News Agency
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Chang e-5 spacecraft blasting off from the lunar surface. The Chinese spacecraft carrying the country s first lunar samples blasted off from the moon on December 3, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced (XINHUA)
A Chinese spacecraft carrying the country s first lunar samples blasted off from the moon at 11:10 p.m. (Beijing Time) on December 3, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced.
It represented the first-ever Chinese spacecraft to take off from an extraterrestrial body.
China s
Chang e-5 probe, comprising an orbiter, a lander, an ascender, and a returner, was launched on Nov. 24, and its lander-ascender combination touched down on the north of the Mons Rumker in Oceanus Procellarum, also known as the Ocean of Storms, on the near side of the moon on December 1.
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Mars spacecraft now 12 mln kilometers from red planet
1 2020-12-16 10:16:42China Daily
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Mars probe Tianwen 1 is seen in its first selfies in space on Oct 1, 2020. (Photo/Xinhua)
China s Tianwen 1 Mars probe was 100 million kilometers from Earth on Monday evening after traveling nearly 360 million km, the China National Space Administration said.
By 9 pm Monday, the robotic probe had flown for 144 days on an Earth-Mars transfer trajectory and was around 12 million km from the red planet, the administration said, adding that it was in good condition.
The spacecraft has made three midcourse corrections and a deep-space orbital maneuver, and will make several orbital corrections before approaching Mars in mid-February, it said in a statement issued on Tuesday morning.
Mars spacecraft now 12m kilometers from red planet By Zhao Lei | China Daily | Updated: 2020-12-16 09:30 Share CLOSE Mars probe Tianwen 1 is seen in its first selfies in space on Oct 1, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]
China s Tianwen 1 Mars probe was 100 million kilometers from Earth on Monday evening after traveling nearly 360 million km, the China National Space Administration said.
By 9 pm Monday, the robotic probe had flown for 144 days on an Earth-Mars transfer trajectory and was around 12 million km from the red planet, the administration said, adding that it was in good condition.
The spacecraft has made three midcourse corrections and a deep-space orbital maneuver, and will make several orbital corrections before approaching Mars in mid-February, it said in a statement issued on Tuesday morning.