for the First time in history, landed a spacecraft on the far side of the moon. The Chinese Chang’e 4 sat early Thursday morning at 3.26 PM in the vicinity of the South pole of the moon.
This was reported by the official Xinhua news Agency. The state broadcaster CCTV talked of a successful landing.
The landing maneuver is regarded as a historic success for China’s space program. Decades after the United States and Russia landed Chang’e 3 for the first time in 2013, a Chinese probe on the moon. The Chang’e-4 Mission is a real Premiere: never before a country has placed the device on the earth-facing side of the moon.
As a designated place to land state media had previously, the Aitken crater was named in 1970 after the American astronomer Robert Grant Aitken. After the arrival of a robotic vehicle to examine the ground and the structures around the landing point. It is equipped with a panoramic camera and measuring devices.
communication barriers
Chinese experts, the Mission had called in advance as very demanding. As an obstacle, the friction was lots of communication with the earth, because on the back of the moon there is no direct radio connection can be established. Therefore, the Chinese brought back in may the transmission of satellite Queqiao (bridge of magpies) in the Position of signals from the radio-shadows send.
The back of the moon, the side that is not visible from the earth. Because the moon rotates exactly as fast around its axis as it revolves around the earth, he is always the same page.
With a smooth flow of the moon mission is to demonstrate that China’s ambitious space program large is making progress.
Several of the experiments planned
among other things, experiments with low radio frequencies are Planned. Without the earth’s atmosphere and other disturbances, astronomers can collect in the silence of space better signals in the hope of new insights about the origin of the stars.
in Addition, Chang’e 4 has been loaded seed, whether growing vegetables in a closed environment, power of the moon’s surface is at low.
the first Chinese to bring back up to 2030 on the moon
in 2019, China is planning another unmanned landing to rock samples to earth. By 2030, the first Chinese to set foot on the moon. The moon missions are only a part of the ambitious space programme of China, which also includes the construction of a space station around 2022.
Chang’e 4 was on 8. December, up from the ground and reached, according to state television on 12. December, the moon’s orbit.
Chang’e 3 had landed, the Chinese, for the first time in 2013, a probe on the front side of the moon – far later than the Russians and the Americans. The United States had brought to unmanned probes between 1969 and 1972 twelve astronauts on the moon.
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Created: 03.01.2019, 07:35 PM
