07 April 2021
The Chang'e 4 lunar lander and rover have resumed work for a 29th lunar day on the far side of the Moon.
The lander woke up on 6 April at 21:43 BJT, and the Yutu 2 rover, awoke at 3:54 BJT, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Programme Centre of the China National Space Administration. So far, the Chang'e 4 probe has survived about 825 Earth days on the Moon. Located in the northwest of Chang'e 4's landing site, the rover has traveled about 682.8 m. The line-of-sight distance between the rover and the lander is about 455 m. During its 29th lunar day, the rover will continue to move northwest toward the basalt distribution area located about 1.2 km away from the rover. The equipment aboard the rover, including a panoramic camera, an infrared imaging spectrometer, a neutral atom detector and a lunar radar, will continue to carry out scientific explorations.
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08 April 2021
The port city of Ningbo in Zhejiang province is building a 20 billion RMB (3.05 billion USD) rocket launch site to meet surging demand for satellite launches and further develop the industrial cluster of the commercial aerospace sector. The launch centre will be located in Xiangshan county of the coastal city, spreading around 67 km2. The launch site infrastructure will consist of a commercial space launch site, an assembly and test facility, command and control centre, while the industrial base will include a rocket satellite research and development and manufacturing base and satellite data application industrial base.
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06 April 2021
On 6 April 2021, the Ground Application System of the Lunar Exploration Project publicly released not only the data from 2 international payloads but also the 13th batch of data from 4 Chinese instruments: Low Frequency Spectrometer (LFS) on the lander and Panoramic Camera (PCAM), and Lunar penetrating radar (LPR) and Visible and Near-Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (VNIS) on the rover. The data were collected during the 10th lunar day. The total number of data files is 585 and the data amounts to 3.32 GB.
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06 April 2021
On 6 April 2021, the Ground Application System of the Lunar Exploration Project publicly released the 1st batch of scientific data from 2 international instruments on the Chang'e 4 lunar lander and rover. The data are level 2A data from the Lunar Lander Neutrons and Dosimetry (LND) instrument of the German University of Kiel and level 2B data from the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) Advanced Small Analyzer for Neutrals (ASAN).
The data were collected during the first 12 days of the mission. A total of 194 data files comprising 1.36 GB of data was released on the GRAS website.
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