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Tag: Chinese lunar exploration program

Posted inChina

China: lunar data from Chang’e-4 ‘open source’

by Asia Times staff March 4, 2019February 18, 2020

Beijing has offered to make all information collected by its Chang’e-4 lunar probe, on the far side of the moon since early January, accessible to astronomers and scientists worldwide as “open source data”. The Chinese probe made the first ever soft landing in the Von Karman Crater in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far […]

The Yutu rover cruising on the surface of the moon's dark side, leaving two tracks behind it. Photo: Handout
Posted inChina, Germany, Russia, World

China’s Chang’e-4 sends more pictures of moon’s dark side

by Asia Times staff January 11, 2019February 18, 2020
An artist’s rendering of the Chang’e-4 probe on the moon’s dark side. Photo: Handout
Posted inChina

China to visit moon’s poles after dipping into the dark side

by Asia Times staff October 1, 2018February 18, 2020
An artist’s rendering of the Chang’e-4 probe on the moon’s dark side. Photo: Handout
Posted inBeijing, China

Lunar lander Yutu taking Chinese explorers to the dark side

by Frank Chen August 16, 2018February 18, 2020
A rendering of the Queqiao satellite performing its communications relay beyond the moon. Photo: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Posted inBeijing, China, World

Satellite set to communicate with far side of the moon

by Asia Times staff June 20, 2018February 18, 2020

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