China’s romsonde Chang’e-4 has reached the destination and landed on the moon’s back side, announced the state TV channel CCTV after an earlier message on the landing was removed.
another state TV channel, CGTN, was first out with the news on Twitter, but removed the message after a short time, without that there came some information about why. Almost an hour later announced the CCTV landing in his TV broadcast at 12 o’clock in Beijing. Shortly after la CGTN again out the message about the landing, which occurred an hour and a half before the final official message came out.
the Chinese type romfartshistorie now they have completed the first soft landing on the moon’s dark side. The probe will carry out experiments and explore the unspoiled terrain as part of a raid the chinese have planned for years.
With Thursday’s “moon landing project”, China will mark itself as a country with high economic growth and technological expertise, as proof that the Communist party has managed to get the country out of poverty. The country has for many years given priority to the space program, and president Xi Jinping has previously advocated to make China a superpower in space.
Chinese specialists also speak about to send a man to the moon before 2020, and have an operational space station in deep space, at the same time.
Earth’s nearest neighbor rotates around its own axis in such a way that almost half of the never are visible down here. The back side is in eternal darkness where the sun’s rays never reach.
the Moon’s back side has never been explored by humans or spacecraft, but a very exclusive group of american astronauts have seen it while they have flown in orbit around the moon. Apollo 8 was the first spacecraft that went around the moon. Christmas night 1968 could William Anders take the first picture of a “jordoppgang”, that the Earth seemingly rising above the lunar horizon.
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