Chang e 5 returns home with lunar samples By ZHAO LEI | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2020-12-17 02:15 Share CLOSE A recovery staff member works at the landing site of the return capsule of Chang e-5 probe in Siziwang banner, North China s Inner Mongolia autonomous region, on Dec 17, 2020. [Photo by Wang Jiangbo/For China Daily]
China s most sophisticated and challenging space adventure – the Chang e 5 robotic lunar mission – ended successfully early Thursday morning with its load of rocks and dust from the moon landing on the grasslands in northern China.
The China National Space Administration said in a statement that Chang e 5 s reentry capsule touched down on its preset landing site in Siziwang banner of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region at 1:59 am.
Chang e-5 lands in North China, concludes epic lunar round trip Source: Global Times Published: 2020/12/17 2:17:21
The photo taken on early Thursday morning shows Beijing Aerospace Control Center Photo: Our Space
Carrying around 2 kilograms of lunar samples, China s Chang e-5 safely landed at its designated landing area in Siziwang Banner, North China s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region around 2 am Thursday, bringing the craft s epic round trip between Earth and its celestial neighbor located some 380,000 kilometers away to a perfect conclusion.
According to the China s National Space Administration on early Thursday morning, the spacecraft s safe landing marks the successful completion of the country s first ever lunar material retrieving mission.
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The Ethiopian Remote Sensing Satellite-1, the African nation s first satellite, has been handed over to its Ethiopian operators, according to the China Academy of Space Technology, which designed and built the spacecraft.
A delivery ceremony was held earlier this month in Beijing with participants from both countries, it said in a statement.
Ethiopian Ambassador to China Teshome Toga Chanaka said at the ceremony that thanks to the Chinese government s wholehearted support and the project team s hard work, the Ethiopian people now own their first satellite.
Through the ETRSS-1 project, he said, Ethiopia now has a great deal of remote-sensing images to facilitate the analysis of climate change. A lot of Ethiopian youngsters have started learning about space activities, and some of them have become satellite operations or climate change research professionals after taking training sessions offered by China.
Professor YUNG Kai-leung (right) and Dr Robert TAM have developed valuable experience from participating in several lunar exploration projects of the Nation. (Credit: Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
HONG KONG, 8 December 2020 (PolyU PR) In support of the Nation’s first lunar sample return mission, a research team at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) developed and manufactured one of the key systems for this historic undertaking, namely the “Surface Sampling and Packing System”, in collaboration with the China Academy of Space Technology.
The PolyU-developed system accomplished the tasks of automatic sample collection and packaging on the lunar surface following the soft landing of the Chang’e 5 probe on 1 December 2020. The vehicle carrying the samples is currently on course back to Earth, and is expected to touch down in China’s Inner Mongolia region next week.
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