The National Space Administration of the People's Republic of China will publish the data obtained during the mission
BEIJING, September 29. /TASS/. The Chinese interplanetary automatic station Chang'E-4 and the lunar rover Yutu-2 have so far spent 1 thousand Earth days on the far side of the Moon. This was reported on Wednesday by the Xinhua news Agency with reference to the Center for Lunar Research and Space Programs of the People's Republic of China, which is part of the structure of the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA).
To date, the lunar rover "Yutu-2" has overcome more than 839 m of the lunar surface and accumulated more than 3.6 thousand tons. GB of information about the Earth's satellite, according to the Center for Lunar Research and Space Programs. It is noted that all systems of the lunar rover and the lander are in good working order and are functioning normally. At the moment, they are put into sleep mode on the 34th lunar night due to the lack of solar energy. Later, Chang'e-4 will continue its research on the far side of the moon. The Chinese National Space Administration will publish the data obtained during the mission.
On December 8, 2018, the Chang'e-4 spacecraft was launched from the Xichang Cosmodrome in southwest China, which landed in the Aitken Basin on January 3. A soft landing on the far side of the moon was made for the first time in the history of mankind and is considered an important step in space exploration. Thanks to the modern equipment of the module, the world's first panoramic images of the "rear part" of the lunar surface, obtained from a close distance, appeared.
The module communicates with the Earth using the qIuqiao relay satellite, located in a halo orbit at the L2 Lagrange point and capable of constantly maintaining a stable position both relative to the Sun and our planet.