Main Engine Was Challenge In Chang’e 3 Development

Credit: Bradley Perrett/AW&ST
Among the challenges Chinese engineers had to overcome in achieving a landing on the Moon, one of the trickiest was developing a powerful variable-thrust engine for the job—one that could responsively throttle up and down as needed to get the probe to lunar orbit, then deliver it to its landing...

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