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The Chang’e-5 unmanned spacecraft capsule with lunar soil samples has successfully landed in China.
This was reported by the China National Space Administration. For the first time in 44 years, samples of the lunar surface were sent to Earth.
A dedicated team will carry out the initial processing of the capsule and then use the aircraft to transport it to Beijing, where the container with lunar samples will be opened and removed.
As reported by China Daily, the preparation process for the orbital module’s entry into the Earth’s atmosphere began around 7:00 p.m. Kiev time on December 16. The capsule separated at an altitude of about 5,000 km above the South Atlantic Ocean.
At an altitude of about 10 km from the earth’s surface, the module released its parachutes and landed safely.
In total, the capsule should contain approximately 2 kg of lunar soil. Of these, 0.5 kg of the lander was pulled from a depth of 2 meters, having drilled a small well. The remaining 1.5 kg were collected directly from the surface of the terrestrial satellite.
The Chang’e-5 spacecraft was launched by the Changzheng-5 carrier rocket on November 23, and on December 1, the lander successfully landed in the Ocean of Storms on the western side of the visible side of the Moon. .
Before that, the last time the Soviet Luna-24 spacecraft brought a sample of the Moon’s geological rocks to Earth in 1976.
As OBOZREVATEL wrote, SpaceX sent a Falcon 9 rocket into space on December 6 with a payload, including brain, heart cells, and a COVID drug.
