28 August 2020
Tianwen 1 has traveled around 100 million km as of 28 August, 10:08 h BJT, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA). The Mars probe is in stable condition and its multiple payloads have finished self-checks. It has traveled in orbit for 36 days and is 10.75 million km away from Earth. So far, Tianwen 1 has captured an image of Earth and the Moon and conducted its first orbital correction manoeuvre. Starting from 19 August, 20:20 h BJT, multiple payloads, including the Mars magnetometer, Mars mineralogy spectrometer and high-resolution camera, have completed self-checks. The scientific data of the payloads were transmitted to the ground smoothly, confirming the nominal operation of the instruments. Multiple flight control tasks were also carried out normally.
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