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The world is watching with interest the passage of Chinese space Chang’e 4 mission, during which CNSA plans to land on the back of the moon has its own unique rover. As previously reported in space research management of the PRC, the orbital module with Lunokhod successfully reached Selena on December 12.
On the eve of the New Year, December 30, the spacecraft “Chang’e-4” entered a given orbit, from which it will be produced soft landing on the far side of the moon. Then the Beijing Center space flight control began adjusting the orbit probe, checked the connection with the Queqiao repeater satellite, which the first of the terrestrial vehicles successfully entered last June years to the so-called Lagrange point L2 and now also successfully operates in this halo orbit. Queqiao will become communication a bridge between the landing module (then the lunar rover) and the earth center management.
However, while ufologists and conspiracy therapists, seeing in all lunar missions, from Soviet and American to today’s, some kind of hoax and adventure, prophesied failure of the Chinese mission, today the Chang’e-4 apparatus at 05:26 Moscow time time successfully lounged on the back of our artificial satellite. And no one in this yet prevented.
As reported by Chinese television (not without pride in its victory) the landing site of the lunar rover happened almost where planned, or rather – 177.6 degrees east longitude and 45.5 degrees south latitude.
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The first lunar surface image sent by Chinese rover.
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