![]() ![]() Opening up as much as 200kg payload mass for international partners is unprecedented.įor example, the Chang'e-6 mission - which aims to launch next year and become the first mission to bring back samples from the far side of the moon - will carry less than 20kg of equipment from France, Sweden, Italy and Pakistan.Ĭhina is working towards the goal of building a base near the south pole of the moon around 2035 and the mission could help advance that goal. Letters of intent must be submitted to China National Space Administration by the end of this year, and priority will be given to innovative projects, robots which can grab objects from the moon's surface - including lunar soil - and scientific instruments that complement Chinese ones.ĬNSA also welcomes mission-level cooperation, where China and its partners would launch and operate their probes separately but carry out spacecraft-to-spacecraft interaction in orbit or joint exploration on the surface, he said. These could be instruments fixed to the lander or items such as robots, rovers and flight vehicles that can work independently after landing, Wang told the International Astronautical Congress in Baku, Azerbaijan. The mission is currently slated to launch in 2028, and will have 200kg (440lb) of payload capacity for interested countries, Wang Qiong, the mission's deputy chief designer, said on Monday. (Photo: Reuters)Ĭhina's upcoming Chang'e-8 moon mission will offer an unprecendented amount of space for equipment for other countries. ![]() A model of the moon lander for the Chang'e 4 lunar probe is displayed at the Zhuhai Airshow in Guangdong province of China in November 2018. ![]()
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