Chang'e 3 lander
LanderStationary lander carrying a near-ultraviolet telescope that observed from the lunar surface for years.
- Launch mass
- 3,780 kg
- Dry mass
- 1,200 kg
- Size
- 2.2 m × 1.7 m
- Power
- Solar
- Designator
- 2013-070A
Image: Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Launched
- 1 Dec 201317:30:00 UTC
- Active for
- 12 years 11 months
- Destinations
- Moon
A CNSA mission that made the first soft landing on the Moon since 1976, setting down in Mare Imbrium with the Yutu rover.
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Spacecraft
Active
Yutu
RoverSix-wheeled rover with ground-penetrating radar. It stopped driving after its second lunar day but kept returning data for more than two years.
- Launch mass
- 140 kg
- Size
- span 1.5 m
- Power
- Solar
- Last contact
- 31 Jul 2016
- End declared
- 3 Aug 2016
Mission details from nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov.