Planetary Science
CHANG'E-5
OperationalPlanetary ScienceEarth-Moon L-point
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
- November 23, 2020 at 08:30 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Wenchang, China
- Launched by
- Long March 5 →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Chang'e 5
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Earth-Moon L-point
- Reference body
- Earth-Moon L-point
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 8,250 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2020-087A
- NORAD catalog №
- 47097
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Status
- Operational