Second Chinese Unmanned Lunar Mission To Be an Orbiter
China’s second unmanned lunar mission, Chang’e 2, will be an orbiter, not a rover as implied earlier by Chinese reports. Planned for launch in 2009-10, it will carry somewhat different instrumentation than Chang’e 1, but will make no attempt to land, according to Ye Peijiam, who helped design the...
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