--- title: "China’s Chang’e-6 probe lifts off with samples from the moon" description: "China’s Chang’e-6 probe collects moon samples from the far side, aiming to land astronauts on the moon before 2030" author: "Mukul Goenka" published: 2024-06-05 updated: 2024-06-05 canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/news/3936/china-s-chang-e-6-probe-lifts-off-with-samples-from-the-moon category: "space and research" tags: ["technology", "moon", "space science"] reading_time: 2 minutes --- # China’s Chang’e-6 probe lifts off with samples from the moon - China’s lunar mission [Chang’e-6](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/87234/china-just-launched-its-most-complex-robotic-lunar-mission) with rock and soil samples finally blasted off from the moon on June 4th, 2024. - Samples collected are aimed to get back at the earth by early June of the year 2024. China has [successfully launched](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2373/skyroot-aerospace-successfully-launched-vikram-s-india-s-first-private-rocket-into-space) another five satellites into space. China’s first Mars rover known as the [Chang’e-6 has launched from the moon with rock and soil samples](https://www.mindstick.com/news/3891/china-launches-historic-mission-to-retrieve-samples-from-far-side-of-the-moon) from the far side. The launch was carried out in the [early morning](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/35894/what-will-be-the-best-thing-to-drink-in-the-early-morning-for-weight-loss) Beijing time on June 4, 2024, as announced by China National Space Administration. ## Successful Liftoff The ascender of the Chang’e-6 probe was launched and proceeded into a fixed orbit around the moon. This mission is to extend a probe to the far side of the moon which is almost impossible due to the bad surface and no [direct communication](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/106064/what-are-the-advantages-of-using-facebook-messenger-ads-for-direct-communication) is possible without the help of an orbiting relay satellite. **[Collecting Samples](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/95628/nasa-s-osiris-rex-spacecraft-has-begun-its-2-year-journey-back-to-earth-after-collecting-samples-from-which-asteroid)** The Lunar orbiter Chang’e-6 was launched last month and landed on the moon on June 2. According to Xinhua [News](https://www.mindstick.com/developersection/news) Agency, the [space agency](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32252/cryogenic-engine-for-upper-stage-of-gslv-mk-iii-was-successfully-tested-by-which-space-agency) announced that the probe indeed took samples and kept them in a contain in the ascender as planned. These samples will be taken to a reentry capsule and hopefully will be splashed down on the Earth by around June 25, at the Inner Mongolia Autonomic Region of China. ## Challenging Terrain Speaking of the landing site, it is necessary to mark that it was the South Pole-Aitken Basin, an old impact crater. This basin is by far the largest on the moon and is older than 4 billion years. These attributes might offer valuable information on the moon’s past as other lunar features have suggested that the impact might have brought up elements from beneath the surface. ## Growing Space Ambitions Chang’e-6 is one of the many moon exploration plans conceived by China under its Chang’e fifth [celestial body](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/115151/what-specific-type-of-celestial-body-did-nasa-s-near-shoemaker-mission-orbit-first)-themed program. This mission came after the [Chang’e-5](https://www.mindstick.com/news/1224/china-s-chang-e-5-lunar-lander-discovers-water-on-the-moon-for-the-1st-time), a probe that drilled moon samples from the near side in 2020. --- Original Source: https://www.mindstick.com/news/3936/china-s-chang-e-6-probe-lifts-off-with-samples-from-the-moon Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.