{"id":4315,"date":"2024-06-26T15:33:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T15:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/about-chinas-lunar-mission-timeline-of-change-6-mission\/"},"modified":"2024-06-26T15:33:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T15:33:54","slug":"about-chinas-lunar-mission-timeline-of-change-6-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/about-chinas-lunar-mission-timeline-of-change-6-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"About China’s lunar mission: Timeline of Chang’e-6 mission"},"content":{"rendered":"


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BEIJING, June 26 (Xinhua) — China’s Chang’e-6 probe, comprising an orbiter, a lander, an ascender and a returner, has brought back the world’s first samples collected from the far side of the moon. Here is a timeline of the mission:
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— The relay satellite Queqiao-2 was launched by a Long March-8 rocket from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in south China’s Hainan Province on March 20 to provide Earth-moon communications services.
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— Queqiao-2 entered its target elliptical orbit around the moon on April 2 and had completed in-orbit communication tests by April 12.
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— The Chang’e-6 probe was launched by a Long March-5 rocket from the Wenchang Space Launch Site on May 3.
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— After a near-moon braking procedure, Chang’e-6 successfully entered its circumlunar orbit on May 8.
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— The lander-ascender combination of Chang’e-6 separated from the orbiter-returner combination on May 30.
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— Supported by the Queqiao-2 relay satellite, the lander-ascender combination of Chang’e-6 successfully landed at the designated landing area in the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin on June 2.
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— The spacecraft conducted intelligent and rapid sampling on the far side of the moon, using a drill to collect subsurface samples and grabbing samples on the surface with a robotic arm. After the sampling was completed, a Chinese national flag carried by the lander was unfurled for the first time on the far side of the moon.
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— The ascender of Chang’e-6, carrying the samples collected from the moon’s far side, lifted off from lunar surface on June 4.
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— The ascender of Chang’e-6 successfully rendezvoused and docked with the orbiter-returner combination in lunar orbit, and transferred the samples to the returner on June 6.
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— After separating from the orbiter, the returner of Chang’e-6 returned to Earth on June 25, bringing back the world’s first samples collected from the moon’s far side. It landed in Siziwang Banner, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
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BEIJING, June 26 (Xinhua) — China’s Chang’e-6 probe, comprising an orbiter, a lander, an ascender and a returner, has brought back the world’s first samples collected from the far side of the moon. Here is a timeline of the mission: — The relay satellite Queqiao-2 was launched by a Long March-8 rocket from the Wenchang […]<\/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-4315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315"}],"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=4315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}