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China Moon Mission: China’s space agency has said that Pakistan will also carry a payload in the country’s proposed Moon mission next year. This is being seen as increasing cooperation in the space sector between the two friendly countries.
China’s official news agency Xinhua quoted China National Space Administration (CNS) as saying on Friday (September 29) that the Chang’e-6 lunar mission is currently undergoing research and development work as planned.
Chang E-6 mission to be launched in 2024
According to the report of The Global Times newspaper, the Chang’e-6 mission will be launched in 2024 and the purpose of this mission is to bring samples from the far side of the Moon. According to this, all the 10 missions undertaken by humans so far to collect samples from the Moon have been focused on the near part of the Moon.
Citing CNS, the report said that the far side includes the Aitken Basin, which is one of the three major lunar landforms and is very important from a scientific point of view.
Purpose to promote international cooperation
The China National Space Administration (CNS) said that in order to promote international cooperation, the Chang’e-6 mission will carry payloads and satellite projects from different countries, including France’s Dorn radon detection machine, the European Space Agency’s negative ion detector. , Italy’s Laser Retro Reflective and Pakistan’s small satellite CubeSat.
A small satellite of Pakistan
According to Dawn’s report, CubeSat is a small satellite of Pakistan. Earlier this year, Pakistan had also sent seeds to the Chinese space station, Tiangong, to research the environmental sustainability of the seeds. Similarly, Pakistan is exploring a formal agreement to join the Tiangong Space Station as well as a more ambitious China-led base on the lunar south pole.
The far side of the Moon is the part that is furthest from Earth and is sometimes called the dark side of the Moon because so little is known about it. China plans to launch its newly developed relay satellite Qiqiao-2, or Magpie Bridge-2, during the first six months of 2024 to support communications between the far side of the moon and Earth, Xinhua reports. Is making.
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