A high-profile event in 2024 for the science community and the public as well,the Chang’e-6(CE-6)mission repeatedly hit headlines from March to June 2024.First in March 2024,the launching of the Queqiao-2,a relay sat...
China has successfully launched six lunar probes so far.From Chang'E-1 to Chang'E-4,they completed the circling,landing and roving exploration,of which Chang'E-4 was the first landing on the far side of the Moon in hu...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (12072365);the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province of China (2020JJ4657)。
It is important to calculate the reachable domain(RD)of the manned lunar mission to evaluate whether a lunar landing site could be reached by the spacecraft. In this paper, the RD of free return orbits is quickly eval...
This study focuses on the physical and chemical properties of surficial lunar regolith(LR)samples returned from the Moon by the Chang’E-5(CE-5)mission.Insights regarding the effect of a new sampling geological site o...
supported by the Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(ZDBS-SSW-JSC007)。
Forty-five years after the Apollo and Luna missions returned lunar samples,China's Chang’E-5(CE-5)mission collected new samples from the mid-latitude region in the northeastern Oceanus Procellarum of the Moon.Our stu...
The Horyu-VI nano-satellite is an international lunar mission with the purpose of studying the lunar horizon glow(LHG)—a still unclear phenomenon caused by electrostatically charged lunar dust particles.This study an...
On January 3,2019,the Chang’e 4 probe sent back photos of the Von Karman crater in the South Pole-Aitken basin,after its successful soft landing, the first ever by a man-made vehicle, on the surface of the far side o...
supported by National Science and Technology Major Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(Lunar Exploration Program);National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11572038);Chang Jiang Scholars Program
Chang'E-IV will be the first soft-landing and rover mission on the lunar farside. The relay satellite, which is located near the Earth-Moon L2 point for relay communication, is the key to the landing mission. Based o...
The Chang'e-3 panoramic camera, which is composed of two cameras with identical functions, performances and interfaces, is installed on the lunar rover mast. It can acquire 3D images of the lunar surface based on the...
Chang’e 5-T1,the Earth re-entry demonstrator in phase III of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program was sent on an Earth-Moon free return trajectory onboard a LM-3C launch vehicle at 2:00 am Beijing Time on October 24...