In 2007, China will launch satellite to explore the Moon

In a press conference on the occasion of China's 50-year space establishment on October 12 in Beijing, Sun Laiyan, director of China's National Space Agency, said the country had finished assembling ships. The country's first moon satellite and designing rockets do not pollute.

China's Moon satellite probe is named Chang'e 1 - a Moon fairy according to Chinese legend.

A Chinese citizen visited the display of unrelated equipment in Beijing on October 10

According to Mr. Sun, Chang'e 1 will go in lunar orbit at an altitude of 200km and will explore the environment, as well as the atmosphere between the Earth and the Moon.

Chang'e 1 will be launched next year. This 2350kg satellite will capture three-dimensional images of the Moon's surface and analyze the material on it.

The Chang'e 1 project is part of China's attempt to land an unmanned probe on the Moon before 2010.