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China's Chang'e-6 complex successfully landed on the far side of the moon and will begin sampling.

According to the People's Daily, the reporter learned from the China National Space Administration that at 6:23 am on Sunday (June 2, 2024), the Chang'e-6 lander and ascender combination successfully landed in the pre-selected landing area of ​​the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the moon with the support of the Queqiao-2 relay satellite.

It is understood that the Chang'e-6 mission will implement the first human sampling and return on the far side of the moon. The engineering innovation is high, the risk is high, and the difficulty is high. Compared with the Chang'e-5 mission that achieved the sampling and return on the front side of the moon in 2020, the Chang'e-6 mission has made a breakthrough in the design and control technology of the lunar retrograde orbit, and will complete the key technical nodes such as intelligent rapid sampling on the far side of the moon and take-off and ascent on the far side of the moon with the support of the Queqiao-2 relay satellite.