WENCHANG (China), May 3.Chinese Long March launch vehicle 5 Y8″ launched on Friday from the Wenchang Cosmodrome on Hainan Island with the Chang'e-6 lunar probe, the correspondent reports.
The launch took place according to schedule at 17.27 local time (12.27 Moscow time), if the mission is successful, the Chang'e-6 apparatus will for the first time in human history deliver soil to Earth from the far side of the Moon.
According to the plan announced Friday by the China National Space Administration, the entire mission, during which it is planned to return about two kilograms of soil samples to Earth, will last 53 days.
Chang'e-6 consists of an orbiter module, a return module, a lander module and a take-off module, the probe is equipped with a payload including a landing camera, a panoramic camera, a mineral spectral analysis instrument and a structure analysis instrument lunar soil.
At the same time, Chang'e-6 is equipped with an international payload, in particular, the French DORN detector for measuring the concentration of radon gas and its decay products on the surface of the Earth's natural satellite, a negative ion analyzer NILS from the European Space Agency agency, Italian laser corner reflector and Pakistani satellite ICUBE-Q.
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