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China on Friday launched the Chang’e-6 lunar probe atop a Long March-5 Y8 carrier rocket from the Wenchang spacecraft launch site in south China’s Hainan province.
The lunar probe is set to collect samples from the far side of the Moon (not visible from Earth), making the mission the first of its kind in human history as Beijing moves ahead with an ambitious program aimed at The goal is to send a crewed lunar mission by 2030.
See, China’s Chang’e-6 mission launched:
The mission, called Chang’e, is named after the mythological Chinese moon goddess. Chang’e-6 is the latest in a series of Chinese lunar missions. This mission will run for 53 days. The Chang’e-4 mission was the first mission to visit the far side of the Moon in 2019. It included a rover to explore the Von Karman Crater of the Moon.
China’s state media CGTN reported on Friday that the Chang’e-6 mission will land in the far south pole of the Moon – Aitken Basin. The mission is tasked with collecting and bringing back samples from the mysterious far side of the Moon for research purpose. This is the first attempt of its kind in the history of human lunar exploration.
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The Global Times quoted the China National Space Administration (CNSA) as saying that the Chang’e-6 mission will carry several international payloads to the moon, including the European Space Agency’s lunar surface ion analyzer, France’s radon detection instrument, Italy’s laser Is. Corner reflectors, and a CubeSat from Pakistan.
Pakistan launched its first satellite mission to the Moon, iCube Qamar, on Chang’e E6 from Hainan, China. The satellite has been designed and developed by the Institute of Space Technology (IST) in collaboration with Shanghai University of China and SUPARCO, Pakistan’s national space agency.
The primary objective of CubeSats is to facilitate scientific research, technology development and educational initiatives in space exploration.
Dr. Khurram Khurshid, member of the core committee in IST, told geo news Pakistan’s satellite – which is being carried by China’s Long March-5 rocket – will reach lunar orbit in five days and will revolve around the moon for three to six months.
He was quoted as saying that with the help of satellite, different pictures of the moon’s surface will be taken, after which Pakistan will have its own satellite images of the moon for research.
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Published: May 03, 2024, 03:13 PM IST
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