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China launches moon lander Chang’e-4 carrying silkworm eggs

Rover will land on far side of the moon, and is carrying an intriguing biology experiment

Beijing: China is aiming to go where no one has gone before: the far side of the moon.

A rocket carrying the Chang’e-4 lunar lander blasted off at about 2:15am local time on Saturday from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southern China.

Exactly when it will set down at its destination has not yet been announced — possibly in early January — but Chang’e-4 will provide the first close-up look at a part of the moon that is eternally out of view from earth.

According to the Xinhua News Agency, Chang’e-4 is also carrying an intriguing biology experiment to see if plant seeds will germinate and silkworm eggs will hatch in the moon’s low gravity.

more at https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/china-launches-moon-lander-change-4-carrying-silkworm-eggs-1.60821894


 
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang'e_4

China launches moon lander Chang’e-4 carrying silkworm eggs

Rover will land on far side of the moon, and is carrying an intriguing biology experiment

Beijing: China is aiming to go where no one has gone before: the far side of the moon.

A rocket carrying the Chang’e-4 lunar lander blasted off at about 2:15am local time on Saturday from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southern China.

Exactly when it will set down at its destination has not yet been announced — possibly in early January — but Chang’e-4 will provide the first close-up look at a part of the moon that is eternally out of view from earth.

According to the Xinhua News Agency, Chang’e-4 is also carrying an intriguing biology experiment to see if plant seeds will germinate and silkworm eggs will hatch in the moon’s low gravity.

more at https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/china-launches-moon-lander-change-4-carrying-silkworm-eggs-1.60821894


So what, USA/Russia/EU did these long before @undertakerwwefan ;):enjoy:
 
China is a practical country. If something has no value, they won't do it. China don't care about Venus and Mars. They ONLY care about moon. To build a base on the moon and deploy nuclear missiles on it.
its a international treaty that's prohibit nukes on anywhere in space and any solar system bodies and for future plan China have future plan to send the men on Mars and in past they trying to put rover/lander on Mars it was a joint mission with Russia, remember the Phobos grunt mission @undertakerwwefan :p:;):enjoy:
 
its a international treaty that's prohibit nukes on anywhere in space and any solar system bodies and for future plan China have future plan to send the men on Mars and in past they trying to put rover/lander on Mars it was a joint mission with Russia, remember the Phobos grunt mission @undertakerwwefan :p:;):enjoy:

China don't care about international treaty. China withdraw from international treaty.
 
China's Rover Is on Its Way to the Far Side of the Moon

The Chang'e-4 team aims to be the first to send a successful mission to the barely explored half of the moon.

We’ve landed more than a dozen people on the moon, sent countless rovers and orbiters to survey it, yet a full half of our closest solar system neighbor remains mostly unexplored. The far side of the moon is so intriguing that China is sending a rover just to explore it, and that spacecraft just started on the first leg of its long journey.

China’s Chang’e-4 spacecraft has been in development for years, and on Saturday it finally launched into space. The spacecraft will be only the second Chinese spacecraft to land on the moon, after Chang’e-3 landed in 2013. Chang’e-3 landed on the moon’s near side, however, which makes Chang’e-4 a very ambitious jump. If successful, it will become the first spacecraft ever to land on the far side of the moon.

Landing on the moon’s far side isn’t as simple as just pointing the spacecraft down when it’s in orbit. On top of the difficulty of a normal landing, a far-side mission presents one additional challenge: the spacecraft can’t communicate with anyone on Earth once it’s hidden behind the moon. To get around that problem, China’s space agency had to launch a relay satellite back in May.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a25460765/china-change-4-rover-dark-side-moon/

From UN/all over the world Just like Iraq in 90s/North Korea @undertakerwwefan

China ain't North Korea. China is 1 billion. And besides, who cares if China puts nukes in space? It's a done deal sooner or later anyway.
 

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