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**DISCUSS ON OUR FORUMS**<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n Article:<\/u> \n<\/p>\n Spaceflight news subscription (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/p>\n Once launched, the Yinghuo-1 probe will arrive at Mars, following a journey of nearly a year, in October 2010. The development of the Chinese probe will also gain cooperation with Russia, with whom the Chinese are building ever-closer ties with.<\/p>\n Weighing in at 110 kg, Yinghuo-1 will have a cubic structure 0.75 meters long, 0.75 meters wide and 0.60 meters high, equipped with two solar panels. The probe will weigh 110 kg in total.<\/p>\n The announcement of the mission to Mars comes at the same time that a model of the Chinese Mars probe was displayed at a space exhibition at the Minhang District Museum.<\/p>\n \u2018The project will lift our overall capacity of deep space exploration and the space industry generally,\u2019 Chen Changya, a researcher who is involved with the project, was quoted by the Shanghai Daily during the exhibition.<\/p>\n Yinghuo-1 will take several instruments for observing the Martian surface, to analyse the magnetic levels of the planet and to try to explain the reason for the absence of water in Mars.<\/p>\n Once in the vicinity of Mars, the two probes will separate and the Chinese probe will orbit the red planet independently on the Russian probe.<\/p>\n This announcement comes just a few days after news about the launch of the first Chinese moon probe, Chang\u2019e-1 next September, which is an integral element of China\u2019s five year plan<\/font>.<\/p>\n The moon probe will be China\u2019s first mission beyond Earth orbit, heading for a mission that will carry out studies of the lunar surface, in what will be the opening salvo of China\u2019s three-phase moon exploration effort.<\/p>\n \u2018The moon probe project is the third milestone in China\u2019s space technology after satellite and manned spacecraft projects, and a first step for us in exploring deep space,\u2019 said Sun Laiyan, chief of the China National Space Administration, to China\u2019s Xinhua news agency.<\/p>\n \u2018As late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping pointed out, if China had no atomic bombs or hydrogen bombs and had not launched its first satellite since the 1960s, China could not be called an influential country and would not enjoy the same international status.<\/p>\n \u2018Space technology reflects a nation\u2019s overall power and is an important facet of the modernization of national defense.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/p>\n **NASASpaceflight.com Job Opportunities**<\/em><\/font> <\/font><\/em><\/p>\n China is preparing its own Mars probe \u2013 Yinghuo-1 \u2013 that will hitch-hike a ride to the Red Planet with the Russian Phobus-Grunt probe. The development of the probe started at the Shangai Academy of Spaceflight in late 2006, and a prototype will be ready by April 2008. The Mars probe will be ready vehicle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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