China's uncrewed spacecraft Chang’e-6 lands on moon's far side. The payloads on the Chang'e-6 lander will perform scientific exploration missions as planned.
Equipped with tools and its own launcher, the Chang’e-6 craft landed in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the moon’s far side at 6:23 a.m. , according to Chinese authorities.
“Compared with the Chang’e-5 mission that will achieve the sampling and return from the front side of the moon in 2020, the Chang’e-6 mission has made breakthroughs in the design and control technology of the lunar retrograde orbit, and will, with the support of the Queqiao-2 relay satellite, complete key technical nodes such as intelligent and rapid sampling from the far side of the moon, and takeoff and ascent from the far side of the moon,” added Chinese space authorities.
“Automation is very difficult especially at high latitudes because you have long shadows which can be very confusing for landers,” Melville said,
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