Planetary Science
CHANG'E-4
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Chang'e 4 is a robotic spacecraft mission in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program of the CNSA. It made a soft landing on the far side of the Moon, the first spacecraft to do so, on 3 January 2019.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 7, 2018 at 06:23 PM UTC
- Launch site
- XICLF
- Launched by
- Long March 3B/E →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Chang'e 4 (lander and rover)
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Lunar
- Reference body
- Lunar
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 3,780 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2018-103A
- NORAD catalog №
- 43845
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Status
- Operational