Chang'e-3 Mission a“Complete Success”

正China launched the Chang’e-3 lunar probe with the country’s first moon rover,named Jade Rabbit,aboard on December 2,marking a significant step toward deep space exploration.The probe entered the earth-moon transfer orbit as scheduled,with a perigee of 200 kilometers and apogee of 380,000 kilometers.It landed on the moon on December 14 to become China’s first spacecraft to soft land on the surface of an extraterrestrial body.     

A New Window to Space

正China’s first coastal launch site is ready for blastoff Five years after construction began,China’s fourth and most advanced space center,the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center,has been completed and is ready to start operations,the People’s Daily newspaper reported on October 17.