China: “Chang’e-5” probe successfully anchored with a module launched from the moon

China’s National Space Authority said on Sunday that it had successfully achieved convergence and lunar-orbit docking of the landing craft “Chang’e-5” with the vehicle group of return.

During this process, samples taken by the probe from the moon were transferred to the return craft during a mission that began with the launch of the spacecraft on November 24. On December 3, after completing its assigned mission, the Chinese spacecraft took off and returned from the surface of the Moon to space. The next step in this mission is to reach Earth safely and deliver the lunar dust / rock samples to Chinese space scientists.

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This scientific achievement is a historic qualitative leap in the career of astronomers in China, which for the first time was successfully crowned by bringing geological samples from the surface of the moon.

Source: Xinhua News Agency

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