Chang'e 5
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Chang'e 5 (Chinese: 嫦娥五号; pinyin: Cháng'é wǔhào[note 1]) was the fifth lunar exploration mission in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program of CNSA, and China's first lunar sample-return mission.[13] Like its predecessors, the spacecraft is named after the Chinese moon goddess, Chang'e. It launched at 20:30 UTC on 23 November 2020, from Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on Hainan Island, landed on the Moon on 1 December 2020, collected ~1,731 g (61.1 oz) of lunar samples (including from a core ~1 m deep),[14][15] and returned to the Earth at 17:59 UTC on 16 December 2020.
Mission type | Lunar sample return |
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Operator | CNSA |
COSPAR ID | 2020-087A |
SATCAT no. | 47097 |
Mission duration | Elapsed: 3 years, 7 months, 28 days |
Spacecraft properties | |
Manufacturer | CAST |
Launch mass | 8,200 kg[1] |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 23 November 2020 20:30:12 UTC[1] 24 November 2020 04:30 CST[2] |
Rocket | Long March 5 |
Launch site | Wenchang |
Contractor | CALT |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 16 December 2020 17:59 UTC[1] Return capsule |
Landing site | Inner Mongolia, China |
Lunar orbiter | |
Orbital insertion | 28 November 2020 12:58 UTC[3] |
Orbital parameters | |
Periapsis altitude | 200 km (120 mi)[3] |
Lunar lander | |
Landing date | 1 December 2020 15:11 UTC[4] |
Return launch | 3 December 2020 15:10 UTC |
Landing site | Mons Rümker, region of Oceanus Procellarum 43.0576°N 51.9161°W / 43.0576; -51.9161[5][6] |
Sample mass | 1,731 g (61.1 oz)[7] |
Docking with Sample Ascender | |
Docking date | 5 December 2020, 21:42:00 UTC[8] |
Undocking date | 7 December 2020, 04:35:00 UTC[9] |
Flyby of Moon | |
Spacecraft component | orbiter |
Closest approach | ~9 September 2021[10] |
Chang'e probes |
Chang'e 5 | |||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 嫦娥五号 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 嫦娥五號 | ||||||
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Chang'e 5 was the first lunar sample-return mission since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976. New lunar minerals, including Changesite-(Y) and two different structures of the titanium compound Ti2O, were identified from the samples returned from the mission, making China the third country to discover a new lunar mineral.[16][17] The mission also made China the third country to return samples from the Moon after the United States and the Soviet Union.