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Nov. 23, 2020
Long March-5 Y5 launches Chang’e-5 lunar mission
The Long March-5 Y5 launch vehicle launched the Chang’e-5 lunar probe from the Wenchang Space Launch Center, Hainan Province, China, on 23 November 2020, at 20:30 UTC (24 November, 04:30 local time).
Long March-5 Y5 launches Chang’e-5 lunar mission
Chang’e-5 (嫦娥五号) is China’s first mission to attempt to collect samples from the Moon and bring them back to Earth.
Chang’e-5 (嫦娥五号) mission diagram
Currently, Long March-5 Y5 is scheduled to launch Chang’e-5 “in late November 2020”.
Chang’e-5 (嫦娥五号) mission, takeoff from Lunar surface
A Chinese Long March 5 rocket launches the Chang’e 5 mission to return samples from the moon. It is the first lunar sample return mission attempted since 1976. Delayed from November 2019.
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https://orbiterchspacenews.blogspot.com/2020/11/esa-tracks-change-5-moon-mission.html
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Images, Video, Text, Credits: China Central Television (CCTV)/CASC/CNSA/SciNews/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga.
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