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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Chinese probe crashes into moon
news.bbc.co.uk - 3/3/2009
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Chinese probe crashes into moon
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A Chinese lunar probe has crashed into the moon in what Beijing has called a controlled collision. The Chang'e 1 lunar satellite hit the moon's surface at 1613 local time (0813 GMT) at the end of a 16-month moon-mapping mission. China launched the spacecraft in late October 2007 on a mission to ...
China Lands on the Moon - Sort of [Space Exploration]
io9.com - 3/4/2009
China Lands on the Moon - Sort of [Space Exploration]
— io9.com — On Sunday, the Chinese space program announced that their satellite, Chang'e-I, ended its 16 month mapping mission... with a planned crash on the lunar surface, destroying the craft. Chang'e-I was the first part of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program ... (more) China Lands on the Moon - Sort of [Space Exploration]

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China Lands on the Moon - Sort of [Space Exploration]
io9 — ... back to earth, expected in 2017. This mission comes at a time when India and Iran have both launched satellites of their own, signaling future potential rivals in space, with North Korea also announcing that it plans to put a communications satellite into space in the near future. It would appear that there will be another space race within the next two decades, with the United States also intending to return to the moon within that time frame. Read more from the BBC and Business Week. Photos from Xinhuanet and Cyber Space Orbit ...

Chinese probe crashes into moon
Variety SF — BBC: "The Chang'e 1 lunar satellite" "has crashed into the moon in what Beijing has called a controlled collision." [via io9] ...

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