Chinese satellites land on the moon

China's Hang Nga 1 satellite landed on the moon yesterday, ending its mission to explore the planet for 16 months.

China's Hang Nga 1 satellite.Photo: skyandtelescope.com.

China's Defense Science, Technology and Industry Department announced that Hang Nga 1 satellite had fallen to the moon's surface on March 1. This is an active landing. The satellite is remotely controlled by two monitoring stations in Qingdao City (Shandong Province) and Khach Thap (belonging to the autonomous region of the Duy-Mai-Atrium).

China put Hang Nga 1 into the space in late October 2007 with the Truong Chinh 3A rocket at the Xun Xuat satellite launch center, Sichuan province. The main task of this satellite is to take three-dimensional images of the moon's surface with radar waves, find 14 common elements, determine the properties and thickness of the earth on the moon and study the space about 40,000 from the Earth. km to 400,000 km.

At 2,350 kg, Hang Nga 1 is the most modern satellite made by China. Thanks to the trajectory technique, this satellite can land on the moon from behind. In 16 months of operation, Chang Er 1 flew around the Moon several thousand times and sent a huge amount of data to Earth.