08 December 2018
China's Chang'e-4 lunar probe was launched in the early hours of 08 December, and it is expected to make the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the Moon. A Long March-3B rocket, carrying the probe including a lander and a rover, blasted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province at 2:23 h Beijing Time, opening a new chapter in lunar exploration.
The scientific tasks of the Chang'e-4 mission include low-frequency radio astronomical observation, surveying the terrain and landforms, detecting the mineral composition and shallow lunar surface structure, and measuring the neutron radiation and neutral atoms to study the environment on the far side of the moon, the China National Space Administration announced.
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08 December 2018
Ma Li is a rocket technician with the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology. He is now engaged in a new round of preparation for the next blasting off of the Long March rockets. Ma said this kind of frequent launching was something that could be hardly imagined four decades ago when he just started to work for the academy.
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09 December 2018
China launched on 06 December its first experimental base project for space solar power stations. The base is set to be located in Bishan District of Chongqing Municipality in the country's southwest. The Chongqing University, China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) and the Xidian University jointly signed the cooperation deal with the Bishan District government at a forum on space solar power station technologies. The aim is to research into space-based solar power (SBSP), that is, to collect solar power in outer space and then transmit it to the earth.
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09 December 2018
CCTV footage shows the careful and solid preparations of the Chang'e-4 lunar probe in the space test facilities. CASC staff is checking the equipment of the probe and the lander. Sun Zezhou, Chief Designer of Chang'e 4 explains the specific of the mission and gives a glimps on the needs for future deep-space missions.
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