10 December 2020
Tianwen-1, which was launched in late July and has been in space for 139 days, is expected to be captured by the gravity of the Red Planet around the Chinese Spring Festival in mid-February, its developer China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASTC) said on 9 December. The probe, launched on July 23, has conducted three orbital corrections and a deep-space maneuver.
MORE...