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Long March-5 rocket, carrying the Chang'e-5 spacecraft, blasts off from
the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast of southern island
province of Hainan, Nov. 24, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhang Liyun)
BEIJING,
Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- China's Chang'e-5 probe performed braking for the
second time at 20:23 p.m. Sunday (Beijing Time), according to the China
National Space Administration (CNSA). After
the deceleration, the probe started flying in a near circular orbit
from an elliptical path around the moon, said the CNSA. In the next step, the lander-ascender combination of the spacecraft will separate from its orbiter-returner combination. The
lander-ascender combination will execute a soft landing on the moon to
collect the country's first samples from an extraterrestrial body. The probe decelerated for the first time and entered the lunar orbit on Saturday.
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