After a quick visit to the Moon in December 2020,China’s Chang'e 5 mission has delivered back to Earth the first new specimens of lunar rock and soil since 1976[1].Scooped from a volcanic location not sampled before,...
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...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51575388)
Due to the low spatial resolution of images taken from the Chang'e-1 (CE-I) orbiter, the details of the lunar surface are blurred and lost. Considering the limited spatial resolution of image data obtained by a CCD...
The Chang'e-3 (CE-3) mission is China's first exploration mission on the surface of the Moon that uses a lander and a rover. Eight instruments that form the scientific payloads have the following objectives: (1...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
The Active Particle-induced X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) is an important payload mounted on the Yutu rover, which is part of the Chang'e-3 mission. The sci- entific objective of APXS is to perform in-situ analysis of ...
funded by the second phase of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program
Lunar Penetrating Radar (LPR) is one of the important scientific instru- ments onboard the Chang'e-3 spacecraft. Its scientific goals are the mapping of lunar regolith and detection of subsurface geologic structure...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10832004 and 11072122)
The lunar probe may still have some remaining fuel after completing its predefined Moon exploration mission and is able to carry out some additional scientific or technological tasks after escaping from the Moon orbit...
The safety of astronauts would be severely threatened if the lunar-landing spacecraft were under an emergency during the near moon phase of flight, which was far from the Earth. For the problem of mission abort caused...
China launches a new lunar orbiter to prepare for the future landing of a lunar vehiclechina’s second unmanned lunar probe, Chang’e-2, successfully completed its third and