Chang'e 3 ( /tʃæŋˈʌ/; Chinese: 嫦娥三号; pinyin: Cháng'é Sānhào; lit. 'Chang'e No. 3') is a robotic lunar exploration mission operated by the China National...
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Chang'e (/ˈtʃɑːŋ.ə/ CHAHNG-ə; Chinese: 嫦娥; pinyin: Cháng'é), originally known as Heng'e (姮娥), is the goddess of the Moon and wife of Hou Yi, the great...
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2007 Chang'e 2, the second CLEP orbiter, launched on 1 October 2010 Chang'e 3, a CLEP lunar lander and rover, launched on 1 December 2013 Chang'e 4, a...
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Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (redirect from Chang'e program)
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) for the landing of the Chang’e 3 probe. Chang’e-4: The first mission to land and explore the far side of the Moon...
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Chang'e 3, the first Chinese landing on the Moon. The spacecraft was originally built as a backup for Chang'e 3 and became available after Chang'e 3 landed...
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Moon landing (section Chang'e 3 (China))
landings on the Moon until Chang'e 3 in 2013. All soft landings took place on the near side of the Moon until January 2019, when Chang'e 4 made the first landing...
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Chang'e 6 (Chinese: 嫦娥六号; pinyin: Cháng'é liùhào) was the sixth robotic lunar exploration mission by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) and...
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Chang'e 8 (Chinese: 嫦娥八号; pinyin: Cháng'é báhào) is a planned robotic mission by China to explore the lunar south pole and to establish the technical...
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completed by Chang'e 1 in 2007 and Chang'e 2 in 2010. Phase two: soft landing and deploying rover on the Moon, completed by Chang'e 3 (2013) and Chang'e 4 (launched...
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08:13 UTC. Data gathered by Chang'e 1 was used to create an accurate and high resolution 3-D map of the lunar surface. Chang'e 1 was the first lunar probe...
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for the December 2013 soft landing by the Chang'e 3 lander and rover. Chang'e 2 was similar in design to Chang'e 1, although it featured some technical improvements...
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A success Chandrayaan-3 (/ˌtʃʌndrəˈjɑːn/ CHUN-drə-YAHN) is the third mission in the Chandrayaan programme, a series of lunar-exploration missions developed...
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completed by Chang'e 1 in 2007 and Chang'e 2 in 2010. The second is landing and roving on the Moon, as Chang'e 3 did in 2013 and Chang'e 4 did in 2019...
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Chang'e 5-T1 (Chinese: 嫦娥五号T1; pinyin: Cháng'é wǔhào T1) was an experimental robotic spacecraft that was launched to the Moon on 23 October 2014, by the...
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the Chang'e 4 mission at the South Pole–Aitken basin on 3 January 2019 and deployed the Yutu-2 rover. Five years later, China followed with Chang'e 6 sample...
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Observatory Association (ILOA Hawai'i) (which already participated in the Chang'e-3 lander mission) for cooperation on the ILRS initiative, despite earlier...
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soft-landings out of three landing attempts, namely Chang'e 3, Chang'e 4 and Chang'e 5. Chang'e 4 made history by making humanity's first ever soft-landing...
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of Chang'e 3". O'Neil, Ian (14 December 2013). "China's Rover Rolls! Yutu Begins Moon Mission". Discovery News. CCTV. Archived from the original on 3 March...
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Earth return operation performed by the propulsion module of Chandrayaan-3. After the launch of INSAT-3DS, the chairman stated the insufficiency of the...
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recent years, China has conducted several missions, including Chang'e-4, Chang'e-5, Chang’e-6, Tianwen-1 and Tiangong space station. The Chinese space program...
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Artemis 3 (officially Artemis III) is planned to be the first crewed Moon landing mission of the Artemis program and the first crewed flight of the Starship...
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Rover (space exploration) (section Lunokhod 3)
the rover was built. Chang'e 3 is a Chinese Moon mission that includes a robotic rover Yutu, named after the pet rabbit of Chang'e, the goddess of the...
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Surveyor 3 is the third lander of the American uncrewed Surveyor program sent to explore the surface of the Moon in 1967 and the second to successfully...
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Director of the China National Space Administration, and chief commander of Chang'e 3, China's first lunar exploration mission. Ma Xingrui was born in October...
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country to have done so. Chang'e 3 is the first spacecraft to soft-land on lunar surface since Luna 24 in 1976. Since the Chang'e 3 mission was a success...
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'Jade Rabbit') was a robotic lunar rover that formed part of the Chinese Chang'e 3 mission to the Moon. It was launched at 17:30 UTC on 1 December 2013,...
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Lunar rover (section Pragyan (Chandrayaan-3 rover))
launched on 1 December 2013 and landed on 14 December 2013 as part of the Chang'e 3 mission. It is China's first lunar rover, part of the second phase of...
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program in 2010 with Chang'e 2, mapping the surface at a higher resolution over an eight-month period, and in 2013 with Chang'e 3, a lunar lander along...
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including Ranger 4, Lunar Orbiter 1, Lunar Orbiter 2, Lunar Orbiter 3, Chang'e 4 lander and Yutu-2 rover. Because of increasing numbers of missions to...
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prajñāna, lit. 'wisdom') is a lunar rover that forms part of Chandrayaan-3, a lunar mission developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)...
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