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Chinese mission to the moon funded by equity Private LuxSpace

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China launched into space early Friday held a lunar probe satellite orbiting the media before returning to Earth with which tested technologies for a more ambitious mission expected to bring lunar samples in 2017 .

probe, which has no name was launched from the Center Xichang Satellite Launch, in the province of Sichuan (southwest), a Long March 3C rocket, state media reported. It is the first mission financed with private capital to the Moon, a project developed by LuxSpace, a firm based in Luxembourg.

A few minutes after launch, the spacecraft separated from the rocket and began smooth their journey to the Moon , as he detailed the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry.

The experimental probe is the first developed by China designed to return to Earth, and The aim of the mission is to test technologies return as the heading control, navigation or shield against the heat generated by the entry into the atmosphere.

The device will return to the earth’s surface in eight days, following half orbit around the Moon, and land on the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region .

results obtained were used to develop the probe Chang’e 5 , scheduled for 2017, and you want to land on the Moon, collect samples and return to Earth.

Probes Chang’e 1 and 2, launched respectively in 2007 and 2010, conducted orbits around the Moon while the Chang’e 3 landed on the lunar surface in December last year with the scientific Yutu vehicle.

The probe Chang’e 4 was developed as a vehicle reservation Chang’e 3 and is used for experimental .

The development of technologies can point return a manned moon , after Chinese astronauts have conducted five missions into space between 2003 and 2013 on board of ships ‘Shenzhou’.

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