Space travel
China’s lunar probe “Chang’e-6” is scheduled to launch on Friday
The lunar probe “Chang’e-6” is scheduled to launch towards the moon on Friday. photo
© Huang Guochang/XinHua/dpa
On Friday, China will send another lunar probe to Welltall. The mission will be the first to take rock samples from the far side of the moon and bring them to Earth.
China wants its next one this Friday (May 3rd). Launch lunar probe. Preparations for the launch of “Chang’e-6” were in full swing, the state news agency Xinhua reported, citing the Chinese space agency CNSA.
A time for the planned start was not initially given. The mission is intended to bring rock samples from the far side of the moon to Earth for the first time.
In preparation, China has already put a communications satellite into lunar orbit. This is necessary so that the probe, which is supposed to land on the far side of the moon, can maintain contact with the control center on Earth.