China's Chang'e-6 achieves complete success in lunar mission

TapTechNews June 25th news. This afternoon, the Chang'e-6 return capsule landed accurately in the predetermined area of Siziwang Banner, Inner Mongolia, and was operating normally, marking the complete success of the Chang'e-6 mission of the Lunar Exploration Program and achieving the world's first sample return from the far side of the moon.

TapTechNews attached the 'business trip' process of Chang'e-6:

At 5:27 p.m. on May 3, the Chang'e-6 lunar probe was launched into space on the Long March 5 Yaogu 8 launch vehicle at the Wenchang Space Launch Site. After more than an hour's flight, the two sets of solar panels of the Chang'e-6 detector were successfully deployed and accurately entered the predetermined orbit, rushing towards the moon. The official announced that the launch mission of the Chang'e-6 detector was a complete success!

Since its launch into orbit on May 3, 2024, the Chang'e-6 has successively experienced processes such as the earth-moon transfer, the near-moon braking, the circumlunar flight, the landing descent, etc. The Chang'e-6 detector is composed of an orbiter, a return capsule, a lander, and an ascender.

At 6:23 a.m. on June 2, the lander and the ascender combination of the Chang'e-6 successfully landed in the preselected landing area in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the moon with the support of the Queqiao II relay satellite.

From June 2 to 3, the Chang'e-6 successfully completed the intelligent and rapid sampling in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the moon, and sealed and stored the precious samples from the far side of the moon in the storage device carried by the ascender in the predetermined form.

At 7:38 a.m. on June 4, the ascender of the Chang'e-6 carried the lunar samples and took off from the far side of the moon. After the 3000N engine worked for about 6 minutes, it successfully sent the ascender into the predetermined circumlunar orbit. This is the first mission of human sample return from the far side of the moon.

At 2:48 p.m. on June 6, the ascender of the Chang'e-6 successfully completed the rendezvous and docking with the orbiter and the return capsule combination in the lunar orbit, and at 3:24 p.m. the lunar sample container was safely transferred to the return capsule and began to send the'moon soil express' to the earth.