The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is among the initiators of the China Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP), and has directly contributed to this grand program.The Academy proposed the scientific goals of the program,...
The Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)is among the initiators of the Manned Space Flight Program(MSFP)of China as well as the China Lunar Exploration Program(CLEP),and has directly contributed to these grand programs.
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...
In the recent 20 years,China has carried out several major space programs and made great achievements,which aroused close attention by the international space community.From 2007 to 2013,the manned rendezvous and dock...
1 March, 2009 witnesses the solemn, spectacular and somewhat sad ending of the lunar flight of Chang’e-1. After orbiting the Moon for 494 days, the f irst China-made lunar orbiter, named after a