Chinese Jade Rabbit Ship

China's first moon-shaped self-propelled ship Rabbit Jade has "died hard" on the lunar surface, Chinese media reported.

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Accordingly, this machine "could not fully recover the functions on Monday (February 10) as expected" , China News Service wrote.

Ngoc Rabbit (Yutu in Chinese) had a serious incident in January last year and 'cannot continue to operate since then'. Xinhua News Agency earlier reported the incident that appeared at the end of January 2014, when the self-propelled ship entered the hibernation period according to the preset schedule. After that, the Rabbit Rabbit ship stopped working for 14 days and nights due to insufficient sunlight providing energy for it.

Hang Nga spacecraft carrying the self-propelled ship Ngoc Ngoc landed on the moon on December 15.(Photo: completevision.in)

However, China 's Global Times recently reported that the robot "shows signs of awakening on Wednesday (February 12)." According to the newspaper, data on the current status and repair process curing is still being collected and analyzed, an official update is expected to be released in the coming days.

The self-propelled rabbit Ngoc Ngoc belongs to the Hang Nga-3 mission, landing on the moon on December 15, 2013 and is the first spacecraft in the past 37 years to perform soft landing on the moon, since the Soviet Union launched the ship. Luna 24 in 1976. Initially, the Rabbit Rabbit will be active within 3 months on the moon.

Mission Hang Nga is China's great pride, helping China become the third country to land on the moon, after the US and the Soviet Union.

BBC said that if this information is confirmed, the death of the Rabbit Rabbit robot will be a strong blow to China's ambitious space exploration program.