China landed this Sunday spacecraft unmanned on the hidden side of the Moonon a mission whose objective is to recover rocks and soil from the surface molereported the Chinese space agency.
The landing elevates the space power status of China in a global race towards Moonin which several countries, including the United States, hope to exploit the minerals moles to maintain long-term astronaut missions and bases moles.
The Chang’e-6 spacecraft successfully landed in the South Pole-Aitken basin, on the back of the Moon, at 6:23 Beijing time (2223 GMT), the China National Space Administration (ANEC) reported in a statement. statement published on its website.
“The Chang’e-6 mission is the first human sample and return mission from the far side of the Moon. “It involves many engineering innovations, high risks and great difficulty,” ANEC said.
“The payloads carried by the Chang’e-6 lander will function as intended and carry out scientific exploration missions,” ANEC said.
The mission is the second of China on the far side of the Moon, a region where no country has landed on the moon before. The back of the Moon It is always with its back to the Earth, which makes communications difficult.
The Chang’e-6 probe landed almost a month after being launched by a Chinese Long Ma rocket
rch-5 from the Wenchang Space Launch Center on the southern island of Hainan.
