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Change 4 lander, rover resume work on moon China Daily | Updated: 2021-02-08 09:00 Share CLOSE Photo taken by the rover Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2) on Jan 11, 2019 shows the lander of the Change 4 probe. [Photo/Xinhua/China National Space Administration] The lander and rover of the Change 4 probe have resumed work for their 27th lunar day on the far side of the moon. The Yutu 2 rover activated at 4:26 am on Saturday and the lander activated just over 12 ...

Also on Saturday, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration.　.

Change 4 probe resumes work for 27th lunar day Xinhua | Updated: 2021-02-07 14:33 Share CLOSE Photo taken by the rover Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2) on Jan 11, 2019 shows the lander of the Change 4 probe. [Photo/Xinhua/China National Space Administration] BEIJING -- The lander and rover of the Change 4 probe have resumed work for their 27th lunar day on the far side of the moon. The lander activated at 4:48 pm on Saturday (Beijing time), and the rover Yutu...

January 22, 2021 China’s Chang’e 5 moon mission successfully returned moon rocks to Earth in December 2020 for the first time in 45 years. It’s now headed toward an Earth-sun Lagrange point, with the goal of making sun observations. ChinaDaily reported this week (January 20, 2021) that the Chang’e 5 moon craft – which on December 16-17 dropped off its return capsule, returning moon rocks to Earth for the first time since 1976 – is now on a new mission to observe the sun. That’s af...

© Provided by Xinhua | Guests attend the launching ceremony of a global naming campaign for a Mars rover in Wenchang, south China Hainan Province, July

Following the successful conclusion of the historic Chang'e 5 lunar sample mission, a major section of the robotic probe has been given a new task deep in space.

China’s space administration has unveiled a list of 10 selections for the name of the country’s first Mars rover, inviting Internet users from across the globe to vote on the candidates before making a

China's space administration has unveiled a list of 10 selections for the name of the country's first Mars rover, inviting internet users from across the globe to vote on the candidates before making a final selection.

The lander and rover of Chinas Change-4 probe on Friday resumed work for the 26th lunar day on the far side of the moon.The lander woke up at 3.13 a.m. on Friday (Beijing time), and the rover Yutu-2, or Jade Rabbit-2, woke up at 10.29 a.m. on ...

Chinas manned spacecraft Shenzhou-10 settles in Maos hometown By Fan Anqi and Deng Xiaoci Source: Global Times Published: 2020/12/20 20:26:11 The reentry module of Chinas manned spacecraft Shenzhou-10 arrived in the hometown of the late Chinese leader Chairman Mao Zedong in Shaoshan, Central Chinas Hunan Province on Sunday. Photo: courtesy of the publicity department of Hunan provincial government The reentry module of Chinas manned spacecraft Shenzhou-10 on Sunday arrived in the hometown of...