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Landing date: 25 June 2024 06:07 UTC ... The overall mission lasted about 53 days, ... [2] The Chang'e 6 lander landed at 22:23 UTC on 1 June 2024 in the southern ...
China’s Chang’e-6 lunar lander successfully touched down on the far side of the moon Sunday morning Beijing time, in a significant step for the ambitious mission that could advance the country ...
The Chang'e-6 craft, equipped with an array of tools and its own launcher, touched down in a gigantic impact crater called the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the moon's space-facing side at 6:23 a.m ...
The Chang’e 6 lander collected 2 kg of lunar material using a scoop and a drill which was then launched aboard the ascender to the mission’s orbiter. Chang’e 6 return capsule landing in ...
China's Chang'e 6 probe returned on Earth with rock and soil samples from the little-explored far side of the moon in a global first. “I now declare that the Chang’e 6 Lunar Exploration ...
Landing date Return date Notes Status Main mission Extended mission Phase 1: Chang'e 1: 24 Oct 2007 Long March 3A: 7 Nov 2007 1 Mar 2009 - Lunar orbiter; first Chinese lunar mission. Success - Chang'e 2: 1 Oct 2010 Long March 3C: 6 Oct 2010 - - Lunar orbiter; following lunar orbit mission flew extended mission to 4179 Toutatis. Success Success ...
The satellite was deployed from the Chang'e 6 lunar orbiter stack in at 08:14 UTC (13:14 PKT) on 8 May 2024 and had undergone testing for the first few days with the first images being expected around 15-16 May 2024.
BEIJING (Reuters) -China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe landed on Tuesday in the northern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia, making the country the first to bring back samples from the moon's far side.