China blasts rocket to mysterious far side of the Moon where it hopes to collect samples for the first time
CHINA has successfully launched its Chang'e-6 spacecraft as part of its mission to retrieve new samples from the Moon.The Chang’e-6 lunar probe and the Long March-5 Y8 carrier rocket at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China’s Hainan ProvinceThe mission will take 53 days and will be done completely through a relay satellite orbiting the moon.
The orbiter and reentry module will stay in the Moon's orbit, while the lander and ascender go to the lunar surface.Once the lander gathers its samples, it will join the ascender to make it way back to the reentry module that will eventually bring it home to Earth. If scientists are right, and there really is an abundance of Helium-3 on the Moon, humans could use it as fuel for the next century.China hopes to deploy a Chang'e-7 in 2026 in search of water, and a Chang'e-8 in 2028 to establish the feasibility of theBut by 2030, China forecasts it will have pinpointed a potential water supply and will have made a start on its ILRS.
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