However, from its landing site near an area rich in volcanic domes called Mons Rümker in Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms"), Chang'e 5 managed to find three glass beads that are very special ...

BEIJING, November 30./TASS/. The lander-ascender of the Chinese Chang’e-5 spacecraft separated on Monday from the orbiter and is preparing for a landing on the Moon, the China National Space ...

Landing on the far side of the Moon is no easy ... China’s Chang’e program will eventually launch the Chang’e 5, which is something of a grand finale for this particular series of missions.

The Chang’e 5 lunar mission returned to Earth early Thursday ... when re-entering the atmosphere to decelerate and aim at this landing range which is chosen for all Chinese space missions.

Following the successful missions of Chang'e-3, Chang'e-4, Chang'e-5, and Chang'e-6 ... along with a new landing buffer system, autonomous navigation, and remote control systems.

All lunar landing probes to date travelled only to ... According to CLEP, China plans to launch a returnable spacecraft called Chang’e 5 by 2020, under the third and final phase of the plan.

The new research, published in the journal Science, determined the basaltic volcanic rocks, collected as part of China’s Chang’e-5 Moon landing in December 2020, were two billion years old – one ...