Countdown starts for China's Chang'e 6 sample mission to the far side of the moon
Lunar lander designed to be the first to bring materials back from the surface that faces away from Earth.
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Nasa capsule brings back the largest asteroid sample ever collected
The capsule carried around 250g of rocks and dust collected from the asteroid Bennu as part of Nasa’s Osiris-Rex mission.
Source: theiet.org
China's robotic spacecraft to collect samples from near-Earth asteroid
China plans to launch an uncrewed probe to collect asteroid samples in 2025, according to the country's official news agency.
Source: theiet.org
China declare discovery of new moon mineral from lunar rock samples
Chinese scientists have discovered a new mineral on the moon, making China the third nation after the United States and Russia to have discovered a lunar mineral, officials reported on Friday (Sept 9). The mineral, called Changesite-(Y), was found in rock and dust samples retrieved from the moon by China’s Chang’e-5 mission , the nation’s first mission to return a...
Source: asiaone.com
Lander and rover of China's Chang'e 4 probe completes 1,003.9 metres of travel on far side of Moon
Beijing, January 8 Yutu-2, the lander and rover of China's Chang'e 4 lunar probe which scripted history in 2019 when it made the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon, has travelled 1,0
Source: tribuneindia.com