The Chang’e-6 lunar probe is aiming to collect samples from an area of critical interest and return to Earth with the ...
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The Chang’e-6 mission aims to land in the Moon’s oldest and largest crater, collect rocks, and bring them back to Earth.
China's advancing space exploration program has launched a new lunar probe to explore the far side of the moon. China has its own space station and conceptual plans for a moon base.
Chang'e-6 builds upon the Chinese space program's successful lunar program. In 2019, the Chang'e-4 mission made a soft landing on the far side of the Moon, the first time this had ever been done by a ...
All told, the mission should take roughly 56 days to complete. China’s potential return to the moon marks a significant ...
CHINA has launched an uncrewed lunar mission which aims to bring back samples from the Moon’s “dark side” for the first time in history. The launch marks a major step forward in ...
If successful, the Chang’e-6 mission will be the first in history to return a sample from a part of the moon that we never get to see from Earth. By Katrina Miller On Friday, China launched a ... It ...
China hopes to return samples from the far side of the moon in a mission that started Friday with the unmanned rocket launch from the Wenchang Space Launch Center.
take-off and ascent technologies, and automatic sample-return on the far side of the moon,” Ge Ping, deputy director of the China National Space Administration’s Center of Lunar Exploration and Space ...