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 by Staff Writers Beijing (XNA) Dec 01, 2020
China's Chang'e-5 probe is preparing for a soft landing on the moon to undertake the country's first collection of samples from an extraterrestrial body. The lander-ascender combination of the spacecraft separated from its orbiter-returner combination at 4:40 am Monday (Beijing Time), according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA). Launched on Nov 24, Chang'e-5 is one of the most complicated and challenging missions in China's aerospace history, as well as the world's first moon-sample mission for more than 40 years. The spacecraft is performing well and communication with ground control is normal, CNSA said. The lander-ascender combination will execute a soft landing on the moon and carry out automatic sampling. The orbiter-returner will continue orbiting about 200 km above the lunar surface and wait for rendezvous and docking with the ascender. Source: Xinhua News Agency
Experts expect major contributions from Chang'e 5 lunar mission Beijing (XNA) Nov 25, 2020 Space experts and educators from around the world are closely following the Chang'e 5 mission and are optimistic it can achieve its targets. Professor Martin Sweeting, a fellow of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom and a distinguished professor of space engineering at the University of Surrey, said the international science community has been looking forward to the mission and the first collection of lunar samples since 1976. He said following China's extremely successful Chang'e 4 mission to ... read more
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