24 November 2020
The Long March-5 Y5, China's state-of-the-art carrier rocket and strongest member of the Long March launch vehicle family, took off at 4:30 BJT in the early morning of the 24 November BJT from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre located in South China's Hainan Province, successfully sending the Chang'e-5 lunar probe into planned orbit. About 2,200 seconds after lift-off, the Chang'e-5 lunar probe separated from the rocket and entered the Earth-Moon transfer orbit with the perigee at 200 km and the apogee at about 410,000 km.
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