LaunchesChang'e 3 & Yutu
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Chang'e 3 & Yutu
Long March 3B · Robotic Exploration
2013Launch Complex 2 (LC-2), Xichang Satellite Launch Center
Mission
Chang'e 3 is an uncrewed lunar exploration mission consisting of a robotic lander and China's first lunar rover Yutu. The main objective of the mission is to achieve China's first soft landing and roving exploration on the Moon, as well as performing lunar-based astronomical observation and studying lunar topography and geology.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- CASC
- Rocket
- Long March 3B
- Orbit
- LO
- Pad
- Launch Complex 2 (LC-2)
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2