July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
... are eagerly climbing the ranks Artist's impression of China's 'Yutu' rover, part of the Chang'e 3 lunar mission If it is a race, however, it's not...saw its latest success in the landing of the Chang'e 3 rover on the Moon in December 2013. That feat...
09 August 2016
Yutu, the Chinese Moon Rover, Dies on the Moon
... th, 2013, in a mission that had also delivered the Chang'e 3 stationary lander. It was China's first landing on ... and 1.5 meters tall, Yutu is much smaller than other rovers, including NASA's Opportunity and Curiosity. Yutu, which translates as...
25 August 2021
Russia's Luna-25 mission postponed over 'problems during testing'
... Union, it was also the last spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon until the landing of China's Chang'e 3 on 14 December 2013, 37 years later. Luna-24 returned 170.1 g (6.00 oz) of moon samples to the Earth in August 1976, a gram of which...
10 December 2018
First far side of the Moon mission underway
...? No-one knows for sure, but with a Lunar penetrating radar on board, Chang’e 4’s rover might be able to shed some light on the matter. The Chang’e 4 rover is also equipped with an energetic neutral atom analyser, a panoramic camera and an infrared...
January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
...understand and better develop solutions to our challenges here on Earth. The Lunar Ultraviolet Telescope on China’s Chang’e 3 rover is still functioning after seven years on the lunar surface. The remotely operated telescope sees in ultraviolet light...
May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
...to land on the lunar farside with the Chang’e-4 rover, while in 2020 it launched its first Mars mission which included ...Belt and Road initiative. So the global macro environment is changing and this will complicate the calculus for any international space ...
