Reconstructing the first successful lunar farside landing – The Bisouv Network – The Bisouv Network

In January of this year, China’s Chang’E-4the fourth version of a lunar spacecraft named for the Chinese goddess of the Moonlanded on the far side of the Moon. Due to the location of the landing, Chang’E-4 had to navigate autonomously, without the guidance of scientists on Earth.
Now, a research team, headed by Li Chunlai, corresponding author of this results and a professor of the National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), has published a full reconstruction of the…

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