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Key facts
- Mission type
- Lander , lunar rover
- Operator
- CNSA
- Cospar id
- 2018-103A
- Mission duration
- Lander: 12 months (planned), 2707 days (in progress) , Rover: 3 months (planned) , 2707 days (in progress)
- Launch mass
- Total: 3,780 kg , Lander: 3,640 kg , Rover: 140 kg
- Landing mass
- Total: ~1,200 kg; rover: 140 kg
- Dimensions
- Rover: 1.5 × 1.0 × 1.0 m
- Launch date
- 7 December 2018, 18:23 UTC
- Rocket
- Long March 3B
- Launch site
- Xichang Satellite Launch Center , LA-2
- Landing date
- 3 January 2019, 02:26 UTC
- Landing site
- Spatio Tianhe within Von Kármán crater in the South Pole-Aitken Basin
- Distance driven
- 1.596 km (0.992 mi), as of 4 May 2024
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 12
- Image
- ChangE-4 - PCAM.png
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- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2018-12-07
- Commons category
- Chang'e 4
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 2019-01-03
- native label
- 嫦娥四号
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Chang'e 4 (/tʃɑːŋˈə/; Chinese: 嫦娥四号; pinyin: Cháng'é Sìhào; lit. 'Chang'e No. 4') is a robotic spacecraft mission in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program of the CNSA. It made a soft landing on the far side of the Moon, the first spacecraft to do so, on 3 January 2019.
A communication relay satellite, Queqiao, was first launched to a halo orbit near the Earth–Moon L2 point in May 2018. The robotic lander and Yutu-2 (Chinese: 玉兔二号; pinyin: Yùtù Èrhào; lit. 'Jade Rabbit No. 2') rover were launched on 7 December 2018 and entered lunar orbit on 12 December 2018, before landing on the Moon's far side. On 15 January it was announced that seeds had sprouted in the lunar lander's biological experiment, the first plants to sprout on the Moon. The mission is the follow-up to Chang'e 3, the first Chinese landing on the Moon.
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