A successful liftoff for China’s most ambitious Moon mission to date

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From Ars Technica:
"On Monday, China successfully sent the latest in its Chang'e missions on its way to the Moon. Chang'e 5 is the most ambitious to date and, if successful, will make China just the third country to return samples from the lunar surface (after the Soviet Union and the US). While the mission is quite complex with lots of potential for things to go wrong, it's also happening on a short schedule, so we'll have a good idea of how things are going within three weeks."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11 ... n-to-date/

Good luck and godspeed to Chang'e 5!

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From SpaceNews.com:
"China launches Chang’e-5 Moon sample return mission"

https://spacenews.com/china-launches-ch ... n-mission/

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From Space.com:
"China launches historic Chang'e 5 mission to collect the first moon samples since 1976"

https://www.space.com/china-chang-e-5-m ... ion-launch

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From SpaceFlightNow.com:
"China launches lunar sample return mission"

https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/11/23/c ... us-center/

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[Ylem]

Cool!
Wish them well

[Graeme1858]

Exciting mission!

Regards

Graeme

[helicon]

Very interesting mission. Good luck to all!

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Looks like the mission continues to be successful. From Ars Technica:
"China Chang’e 5 probe has safely landed on the Moon [Updated]"

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12 ... n-tuesday/

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From Space.com:
"China's Chang'e 5 lands on the moon to collect the 1st fresh lunar samples in decades"

https://www.space.com/china-chang-e-5-l ... ar-samples

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[helicon]

Quite an accomplishment for the Chinese space program. I hope the samples will yield new information that we don't have yet.

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From Ars Technica:
"China releases a super-clear image of the Moon taken by Chang’e 5 probe"

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12 ... e-5-probe/

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[Tim456]

From Ars Technica:
"China releases a super-clear image of the Moon taken by Chang’e 5 probe"

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12 ... e-5-probe/

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There is a very nice video of the landing imbedded in this article. Thanks for sharing!

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From Space.com:
"China's Chang'e 5 probe lifts off from moon carrying lunar samples"

https://www.space.com/china-chang-e-5-m ... ar-surface

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I saw an update article on Space.com today:
"China's Chang'e 5 moon lander is no more after successfully snagging lunar rocks"

https://www.space.com/china-chang-e-5-m ... is-no-more

The lander apparently was not expected to survive a long time, but it apparently failed a bit earlier than expected.

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[Graeme1858]

https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/12/16/c ... t-to-moon/