Key facts
- Mission type
- Lunar orbiter
- Operator
- CNSA
- Cospar id
- 2007-051A
- Mission duration
- 1 year (planned), 1 year, 4 months and 5 days (final)
- Bus
- DFH-3A
- Manufacturer
- China Academy of Space Technology (CAST)
- Launch mass
- 2,350 kg (5,180 lb)
- Payload mass
- 130 kg (290 lb)
- Launch date
- 24 October 2007, 10:05:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Chang Zheng 3A
- Launch site
- Xichang LC-3
- Disposal
- Deorbited
- Decay date
- 1 March 2009, 08:13:10 UTC
- Reference system
- Selenocentric
- Periselene altitude
- 200 km (120 mi)
- Aposelene altitude
- 200 km (120 mi)
- Inclination
- 64°
- Period
- 127 minutes
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Chang'e 1 ( /tʃæŋˈʌ/; simplified Chinese: 嫦娥一号; traditional Chinese: 嫦娥一號; pinyin: Cháng'é yī hào) was an uncrewed Chinese lunar-orbiting spacecraft, part of the first phase of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program. The spacecraft was named after the Chinese Moon goddess, Chang'e.
Chang'e 1 was launched on 24 October 2007 at 10:05:04 UTC from Xichang Satellite Launch Center. It left lunar transfer orbit on 31 October and entered lunar orbit on 5 November. The first picture of the Moon was relayed on 26 November 2007. On 12 November 2008, a map of the entire lunar surface was released, produced from data collected by Chang'e 1 between November 2007 and July 2008.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chang'e 1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations