“The test lunar orbiter landed in the county Siziwang Banner Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (500 km from Beijing) early Saturday morning,” – said in a statement.
It is emphasized that the first such mission since returning from lunar orbit to Earth, undertaken by mankind for the first time in nearly 40 years, puts China on a par with such cosmic powers as the former Soviet Union and the United States. Before that, a similar mission accomplished Soviet spacecraft in 1970.
For 8 days overcame module 840 thousand. Km. During landing PCO for some time loses communication with the machine of the high speed (11,2 km / sec), and the friction with the atmospheric layers, resulting in a strong heating of the shell. Chinese engineers have successfully applied in such a situation, the method of “rebound” from the edge of the atmosphere, and then continued down the machine again. In addition, in the course of the mission were practiced, and other technologies that are necessary for the implementation of the third stage of the Chinese lunar program.
The unmanned spacecraft was launched on October 24. His main task was to conduct the testing of technologies that will be used to “Chang’e-5″ – Lunokhod future, by which will be held the first Chinese mission to the moon to return to Earth in 2017 approximately. Lunokhod must be delivered back about 2 kg of lunar soil samples collected from a depth of 2 m below the surface.
This is the fourth successful lunar launch. Two first launch lunar probe, performing photographing during overflight and other remote tasks were carried out in 2007 and 2010; during the last device “Chang’e 3″ made a soft landing on the moon in mid-December 2013 and delivered to the Bay of Rainbows first Chinese lunar rover “Jade Rabbit”, which is now virtually useless, but, to the surprise of its creators, continued “wake up” after each of the moonlit night.
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