Chinese Show Precise Spaceflight Control
Chinese controllers have achieved a velocity within 1 cm./sec. of prediction in the braking maneuver that brought the Chang’e 2 spacecraft into its 100-km.-altitude (62-mi.) working orbit around the Moon. The lunar probe, China’s second, is now in a position to begin surveying the lunar surface...
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