Friday, October 24, 2014

China launches first moon mission private equity – 20minutos.es

The Moon

image of the moon. (FILE)

China successfully launched the first privately funded mission Destination Moon, a Long March rocket that blasted off from Xichang base.

The mission 4M bring lunar samples to Earth The 4M mission a project developed by LuxSpace, a firm based in Luxembourg, is embedded in the five-T1 Chang’e mission, which aims to test the technology for a future mission to return lunar samples .

4M ​​has been planted on a platform of the last phase of the Chinese rocket. It will transmit continuously information on radiation in the frequency 145,980 mhz, and its signal can be decoded by amateurs around the world, to participate in a contest.

If all goes as planned, the spacecraft Chang’e 5-T1 will happen to your guest 4M around the Moon and back to Earth will launch a capsule test pass through the atmosphere as a fireball in our planet on October 31.

The main objective is to test technology that could get samples of moon dust and rocks to be sent to Earth, mission goal of the Chang’e 5 of China, which is scheduled for 2017.

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