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CHANG'E-1
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Chang'e 1 was an uncrewed Chinese lunar-orbiting spacecraft, part of the first phase of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program. The spacecraft was named after the Chinese Moon goddess, Chang'e.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 24, 2007 at 10:05 AM UTC
- Launch site
- XICLF
- Launched by
- Long March 3A →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Chang'e-1
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Lunar
- Reference body
- Lunar
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 2,352 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2007-051A
- NORAD catalog №
- 32273
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 6.3246 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 1, 2009
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 1, 2009
- Time in service
- 1.4 years
- Fate
- Mission ended at Lunar.
- Final status
- Decayed