Chang'e 6
Appearance
Mission type | Surface sample return |
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Operator | CNSA |
COSPAR ID | 2024-083A |
SATCAT no. | 59627 |
Mission duration | 53 days (planned) 61 days, 2 hours, 37 minutes (in progress) |
Spacecraft properties | |
Manufacturer | CAST |
Launch mass | 8,200 kg (18,100 lb)[1] |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 09:27, May 3, 2024[2][3] |
Rocket | Long March 5 |
Launch site | Wenchang |
Moon lander | |
Landing site | Southern edge of Apollo Basin Template:Lunar coords and quad cat[4] |
Chang'e probes |
Chang'e 6 is a Chinese spacecraft that left the Earth in May 2024. It has no people on board.
It landed on the Moon, in June.[5]
Samples from the Moon's surface, came back to Earth (in late June).[6]
It is on its way back to Earth (as of early June).
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Chang'e 5 and Chang'e 6 Archived 2017-04-03 at the Wayback Machine. Gunter Dirk Krebs, 'Gunter's Space Page'. Accessed on 9 January 2019.
- ↑ Jones, Andrew (10 January 2024). "China's Chang'e-6 probe arrives at spaceport for first-ever lunar far side sample mission". SpaceNews. Archived from the original on 3 May 2024. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
- ↑ "Long March 5 - Chang'e 6". nextspaceflight.com. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
- ↑ "大陸「嫦娥六號」明年5月發射 擬帶回月球背面岩石採樣" (in Traditional Chinese). 聯合報. 2023-04-25. Archived from the original on 2023-04-25. Retrieved 2023-04-25.
- ↑ https://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/i/zAgnMb/kinesisk-romsonde-har-landet-paa-maanens-bakside. Retrieved 2024-06-02
- ↑ https://yle.fi/a/74-20095837. Retrieved 2024-06-25