Sentences with phrase «e lunar sample»
«I do not believe that the Chang» e lunar sample return mission will launch this year, as originally planned,» said Dr Jones.
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Now their multi-pronged plan calls for the robotic spacecraft Chang» e 5 to launch in the second half of 2017 atop a Long March - 5 rocket, land on the moon and collect several pounds of lunar samples, then hurl the specimens back to Earth.
China will attempt to land the Chang» e 3 rover on the moon at year's end, the first lunar surface mission since Russia's Luna 24 sample return lander in 1976.