Key facts
- Mission type
- Lunar orbiter
- Operator
- CNSA
- Cospar id
- 2007-051A
- Mission duration
- 1 year (planned), 1 year, 4 months and 5 days (final)
- Bus
- DFH-3A
- Manufacturer
- China Academy of Space Technology (CAST)
- Launch mass
- 2,350 kg (5,180 lb)
- Payload mass
- 130 kg (290 lb)
- Launch date
- 24 October 2007, 10:05:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Chang Zheng 3A
- Launch site
- Xichang LC-3
- Disposal
- Deorbited
- Decay date
- 1 March 2009, 08:13:10 UTC
- Reference system
- Selenocentric
- Periselene altitude
- 200 km (120 mi)
- Aposelene altitude
- 200 km (120 mi)
- Inclination
- 64°
- Period
- 127 minutes
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Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 2350
- Orbital period
- 127
- Image
- Chang'e-1 mockup at BASM.jpg
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- periapsis
- 200
- apoapsis
- 200
- orbital inclination
- 64
- Commons category
- Chang'e 1
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2007-10-24
- time of object orbit decay
- 2009-03-01
- native label
- 嫦娥一号
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Chang'e 1 ( /tʃæŋˈʌ/; simplified Chinese: 嫦娥一号; traditional Chinese: 嫦娥一號; pinyin: Cháng'é yī hào) was an uncrewed Chinese lunar-orbiting spacecraft, part of the first phase of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program. The spacecraft was named after the Chinese Moon goddess, Chang'e.
Chang'e 1 was launched on 24 October 2007 at 10:05:04 UTC from Xichang Satellite Launch Center. It left lunar transfer orbit on 31 October and entered lunar orbit on 5 November. The first picture of the Moon was relayed on 26 November 2007. On 12 November 2008, a map of the entire lunar surface was released, produced from data collected by Chang'e 1 between November 2007 and July 2008.
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