Chang'e 4 is a robotic spacecraft mission in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program of the China National Space Administration, launched December 7, 2018. It made a soft landing on the far side of the Moon on January 3, 2019, the first spacecraft ever to do so, with its lander and the Yutu-2 rover both operating on the lunar surface well beyond their planned mission durations.
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Mission Type OutcomeSuccessful first ever landing on the lunar far side; lander and Yutu-2 rover both operated well beyond their planned mission durations. 2 Mission Type
Mission Type (category) Mission Type (category) Chang'e 4
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It made a soft landing on the far side of the Moon, the first spacecraft to do so, on 3 January 2019
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Chang'e 4 article, mission status section
It made a soft landing on the far side of the Moon, the first spacecraft to do so, on 3 January 2019
In Group: Chang'e Lunar Missions, Lead sentence
Chang'e 4 (; Chinese: 嫦娥四号; pinyin: Cháng'é Sìhào; lit. 'Chang'e No.
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Yutu-2 (Wikipedia)
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Yutu-2 (Chinese: 玉兔二号; pinyin: Yùtù Èrhào) is the robotic lunar rover component of CNSA's Chang'e 4 mission to the Moon, launched on 7 December 2018 18:23 UTC, it entered lunar orbit on 12 December 2018 before making the first soft landing on the far side of the Moon on 3 January 2019.
Spacecraft Of: Yutu-2, Lead sentence
Yutu-2 (Chinese: 玉兔二号; pinyin: Yùtù Èrhào) is the robotic lunar rover component of CNSA's Chang'e 4 mission to the Moon, launched on 7 December 2018 18:23 UTC, it entered lunar orbit on 12 December 2018 before making the first soft landing on the far side of the Moon on 3 January 2019.
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Operated By: China National Space Administration, Chinese Lunar Exploration Program
is the first and ongoing series of robotic Moon missions by the China National Space Administration (CNSA)
Part Of: Chang'e Program, Chinese Lunar Exploration Program
Chang'e 4 (2019) made the world's first landing on the far side of the Moon; its Yutu-2 became the longest-lived lunar rover.
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