China has launched an ambitious mission to Mars. It'll attempt to deploy an orbiter, lander and rover after the Tianwen-1 spacecraft enters Mars’ orbit in February. If it succeeds, China will become the first nation to achieve such a complex feat.
5 (Xinhua) -- China plans to carry out the Tianwen-3 mission through two launches around 2028, aiming to bring back samples from Mars, a Chinese space expert said on Thursday. Liu Jizhong, chief designer of China's Mars sample-return mission, unveiled the details at the 2nd International...
China has made it to Mars. The nation's first fully homegrown Mars mission, Tianwen-1, arrived in orbit around the Red Planet today (Feb. 10), according to Chinese media reports. The milestone makes China the sixth entity to get a probe to Mars, joining the United States, the Soviet ...
"China has retrieved the first ever samples from the far side of the moon with the Chang'e-6 mission this year. Since Mars is much farther away than the moon, it will take two launches to carry out the Mars sample-return mission due to the limited carrying capacities of our current roc...
As the Tianwen-1 spacecraft is scheduled for launch in late July or early August, the mission chief scientist and his team provide an overview focusing on the scientific objectives and instrumentation of China’s first Mars mission.
China launched its first independent Mars mission on Thursday from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province, marking the start of the nation's planetary exploration program.As the launch sequence started at 12:41 pm, 10 en...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's maiden space exploration mission to Mars has captured its first image of the red planet, the space agency said on Friday, some six months after the probe left Earth. The uncrewed Tianwen-1 took the picture at a distance of around 2.2 million...
TIANWEN1,CHINA'S MISSION TO MARS 天问系列的首次火星探测任务(first Mars exploration mission)火星-Mars,来自拉丁语Mars,火星因为其橘红色外表而被中国人成为“火星”,古希腊人却由其联想至鲜血,因此以古...
China has made it toMars. The nation’s first fully homegrown Mars mission,Tianwen-1, arrived in orbit around the Red Planet today (Feb. 10), according to Chinese media reports. The milestone makes China the sixth entity to get a probe to Mars, joining the United States, the Sovi...
China plans mission to land a probe on Mars in 2021K J M Varma