Photo
taken on Nov. 17, 2020 shows the Long March-5 Y5 rocket at the Wenchang
Spacecraft Launch Site in south China's Hainan Province. The fifth Long
March-5 rocket, to be used to launch China's Chang'e-5 lunar probe, was
vertically transported to the launching area at the Wenchang Spacecraft
Launch Site on Tuesday.[Photo/Xinhua] The
fifth Long March-5 rocket, to be used to launch China's Chang'e-5 lunar
probe, was vertically transported to the launching area at the Wenchang
Spacecraft Launch Site in south China's Hainan Province on Tuesday. The
carrier rocket, coded as Long March-5 Y5, is planned to be launched in
late November, according to the China National Space Administration. Space
engineers have conducted a general assembly and tests on the rocket
after it was transported to Wenchang in late September. It
took about two hours to vertically transport the large rocket to the
launching area Tuesday morning. Final examinations and tests will be
conducted on the rocket before the launch. The
Long March-5 carrier rocket, currently China's largest launch vehicle,
successfully launched China's first Mars mission Tianwen-1 on July 23. The
Chang'e-5 mission aims to conduct unmanned lunar sample collection and
return to Earth, one of the country's most complicated and challenging
space missions. It will contribute to the scientific studies in fields
such as the formation and evolution of the moon.
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