The Chinese mission left this morning, Friday, May 3 Chang’e-6, with the aim of returning two kilograms of lunar samples to Earth. It will last for 50 days (5 of which are planned for flight and about 20 for modification) and will also attempt a launch attempt, which has never happened before. Towards the hidden side of our satellite. The Chinese Space Agency’s probe left Earth in the local afternoon from the Wenchang Space Base, when the time was about 11.30 Italian time. The landing point will be the Antarctica-Itkin lunar basin, one of the largest known craters in the entire solar system.
Where do you see the launch and when does it start?
Starting at 10:30 Italian time, by contacting the website Space.com website You will be able to follow all stages of Chang’e’s launch. The Pakistani Icube-Q satellite was also installed on board the probe, which was designed and developed by the Institute of Space Technology (IST), in cooperation with the Pakistan National Space Agency SUPARCO and China’s Shanghai Segtu University. Icube-q will carry two optical cameras to image the lunar surface. There will also be an Italian contribution, a laser mirror Led by the National Institute of Nuclear Physics, which measures the distance to the Moon. After collecting the debris to bring it to our planet, the spacecraft will return to Earth.
Stages of the Changi program
Beijing launched the Queqiao-2 satellite only in March to ensure stable communication between Earth and a lunar rover. Over the past ten years, it has invested enormous resources in its space program to try to compete with American and Russian missions. Chang’e Lunar Exploration Program Instead, it began in 2007 with the launch of the first lunar satellite, Chang’e-1, followed by Chang’e-2 in 2010. Chang’e 3 was launched in 2013, while in 2019 the first landing of a vehicle on the moon’s surface took place. The hidden side of the satellite (the side that is not visible from the Earth because the speed of its rotation around the axis of our natural satellite is equal to the speed of its rotation around the Earth itself), the Chang’e-4 rover, has been discovered. , Yutu-2. The material collection phase began in November 2020, using the Chang’e-5 probe Who brought soil samples to our planet. However, we will have to wait until 2030, for a manned mission to the Moon.
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