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Chang'e 1 was launched aboard a Long March 3A rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center on 24 October 2007, [7] having been delayed from the initial planned date of 17–19 April 2007. [8] It scanned the entire Moon in unprecedented detail, generating a high definition 3D map that would provide a reference for future soft landings.
The second is landing and roving on the Moon, as Chang'e 3 did in 2013 and Chang'e 4 did in 2019. The third is collecting lunar samples from the near-side and sending them to Earth, a task Chang'e 5 completed in 2020, and Chang'e 6 that completed in 2024.
Landing site: Inner Mongolia, China: Lunar orbiter; ... Landing date: 1 June 2024 ... The second phase sought to land and rove on the Moon, ...
China achieved its first moon landing in 2013 with the Chang’e 3 mission, which set a lander and rover on the lunar surface to study the moon’s terrain. Before that, only the U.S. and the ...
China’s most complex robotic lunar endeavor to date, the uncrewed mission aims to return samples to Earth from the moon’s far side for the first time. ... include landing astronauts on the ...
The landing elevates China's space power status in a global rush to the moon, where countries, including the United States, are hoping to exploit lunar minerals to sustain long-term astronaut ...
Landing airbag punctured, resulting in loss of attitude control shortly before planned touchdown, [29] impacted Moon on 6 December 1965 at 21:51:30 UTC. [37] 37: Luna 9 (E-6 No.13) Luna 9: 31 January 1966: Molniya-M: Lavochkin: Lander: Success First spacecraft to land successfully on the Moon. Touchdown on 3 February 1966 at 18:45:30 UTC. [38]
The Lander/Ascender landed on the Moon on 1 December 2020, at 15:11 UTC. [31] The Chang'e 5 landing site is at 43.1°N (in latitude), 51.8°W (in longitude) in the Northern Oceanus Procellarum near a huge volcanic complex, Mons Rümker, [32] located in the northwest lunar near side.