AkaSci 🛰️ on Nostr: China's Chang'e 6 mission to the moon was launched today. The spacecraft and mission ...
China's Chang'e 6 mission to the moon was launched today.
The spacecraft and mission are very similar to Chang'e 5, which brought lunar rock samples back to earth in 2020, except that the Chang'e 6 landing site is on the far side of the moon (43.0°S 154.0°W).
Comms will take place via the Queqiao-2 relay satellite, which was launched on March 20 and is in an elliptical lunar orbit of 200×16,000 km at 62.4° inclination.
Mission time: 53 days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7a4n-rmBIw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27e_6
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The spacecraft and mission are very similar to Chang'e 5, which brought lunar rock samples back to earth in 2020, except that the Chang'e 6 landing site is on the far side of the moon (43.0°S 154.0°W).
Comms will take place via the Queqiao-2 relay satellite, which was launched on March 20 and is in an elliptical lunar orbit of 200×16,000 km at 62.4° inclination.
Mission time: 53 days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7a4n-rmBIw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27e_6
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