China’s Tianwen-1 probe successfully performs its orbital insertion on Mars – Explica .co – Explica

One day after the Arab probe Hope made its orbital insertion on Mars, the Chinese spacecraft has also succeeded Tianwen-1, as confirmed by the China National Space Administration (CNSA, in English) and the official news agency of the Chinese government Xinhua.
After a journey of nearly seven months, a powerful engine on the spacecraft has been turned on to slow down enough to be captured by the gravity of Mars and into elliptical orbit around the red planet.
After a nearly seven-month journey from…

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