News Archive / Tagged: Chang’e 4

• China’s Chang’e 4 mission lands on Moon’s far side

  Derek RichardsonJanuary 3rd, 2019

  The China National Space Administration successfully soft-landed a spacecraft on the far side of the Moon, a historic first in lunar exploration.

• Contact lost with China’s DSLWP-A1 lunar microsatellite

  Tomasz NowakowskiJune 1st, 2018

  China has apparently lost contact with one of its two lunar radio astronomy microsatellites sent into space last week together with a communications relay spacecraft for Chang’e 4 lunar mission.

• Long March 4C sends Chang’e 4 relay satellite toward Moon

  Tomasz NowakowskiMay 21st, 2018

  Using a Long March 4C rocket, China launched the first spacecraft of its Chang’e 4 lunar mission along with two smaller satellites. The booster lifted off at 5:28 p.m. EDT (21:28 GMT) May 20, 2018, from Launch Complex 3 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the country's Sichuan Province.

• First spacecraft for China’s Chang’e 4 lunar mission launching Sunday

  Tomasz NowakowskiMay 19th, 2018

  China's Queqiao communications relay satellite is undergoing final preparations before launch. It is the first spacecraft of the country's ambitious Chang'e 4 mission, which will culminate in the first spacecraft to soft-land on the far side of the moon in late 2018.