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| China's Lunar Probe Enters Earth-Moon Transfer Orbit |
| [2013-12-03] |
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China's lunar probe Chang'e-3 has entered the earth-moon transfer orbit after it separated from the carrier rocket, space authorities announced Monday. Chang'e-3 arrived at the orbit with a perigee of 200 kilometers and an apogee of 380,000 kilometers as scheduled. The lunar probe, including a lander and a moon rover, is expected to so... |
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| Chang'e-3 Trims Its Orbit |
| [2013-12-03] |
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Chang'e-3, China's first planned soft moon landing, finished the first orbital trimming at 3:50 p.m. in its trajectory along the earth-moon transfer orbit, the Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC) said. Chang'e-3 mission with moon rover "Yutu" (Jade Rabbit) was successfully launched early on Monday morning from the Xichang Satellite... |
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| China Launches Probe and Rover to Moon |
| [2013-12-02] |
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The Long March-3B carrier rocket carrying China's Chang'e-3 lunar probe blasts off from the launch pad at Xichang Satellite Launch Center, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Dec. 2, 2013. It will be the first time for China to send a spacecraft to soft land on the surface of an extraterrestrial body, where it will conduct surveys on t... |
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| China Announces Launch of Chang'e-3 Lunar Probe "successful" |
| [2013-12-03] |
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The launch of China's lunar probe Chang'e-3 was "successful," the Xichang Satellite Launch Center announced Monday. Zhang Zhenzhong, director of the center, made the announcement after the lunar probe entered the earth-moon transfer orbit and unfolded its solar panels. Chang'e-3 lunar probe, aboard a Long March-3B carrier rocket, blasted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China at 1:30 a.m. Monday. |
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| Wu Beili, a project leader from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, says her team spent two years on the research. Their findings were published today in the online version of Science, a leading US-based scientific journal. Although the journal praised Wu's work, she says the road towards a new HIV drug is still long and challenging. |
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