China successfully launches testsatelliet for flight to the moon

China has Friday morning an unmanned spaceship launched. In an eight-day mission the satellite around the moon to fly and then return to the earth. The project is a test for a space mission to the country in 2017 wants to go run.

The spacecraft has separated from the launcher and shortly after launch, the expected price adopted, writes the official Chinese state news agency Xinhua. The satellite must be in eight days half a circle to the moon, and then return to the earth. The ship would then with a velocity of about 11.2 km per second, the atmosphere is going to address. There must then be sufficiently slowed down to end up in the north of China to countries.

CBS describes that the satellite at an ideal angle should come out flying. The spacecraft can therefore be several times the atmosphere ‘bounce’, which is also referred to is compared to a stone on the water reflects it. If the aanvlieghoek is inaccurate, the satellite burn up or the space to be ingekaatst.

It is the first time that China is such a mission to do and in 2017, it would land on a similar mission want to start. In the mission the satellite is also still land on the moon for samples to collect. That is for the current test, which is not the case. The purpose of the current mission is to get the technological developments to test. For example, the team behind the satellite under to gain more experience with navigating and controlling the spacecraft. The heat shield may also, in practice, be put to the test.

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