The country's space administration aims to land two astronauts near the lunar south pole before the end of the decade.
For the first crewed mission, the crew spacecraft and lander will rendezvous in orbit before attempting to land on the lunar surface. The new crew spacecraft will have a mass of 26 tons and it has already been flight tested at a high altitude.
The mission will also include a lunar rover with a range of 10 kilometers and a mass of 200 kilograms that can sit two astronauts. China is also developing a spacesuit for lunar operations that will have to work for a minimum of 8 hours at a time.Long March 9 and 10 Long March 10 will be a three-stage rocket with three five-meter-diameter cores for its first stage. It will be capable of sending 17 tons of payload to trans-lunar injection. A test launch of Long March 10A, a smaller two-stage version, is scheduled for 2027.
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