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China to wrap up its lunar probe program by 2017

 
Mar 10, 2010 15:46 Moscow Time
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China is slated to finalize its three-stage Lunar Probe Program before the end of 2016, Russia’s ITAR-TASS news agency reported on Wednesday. The first stage already saw the launching of the Chang’e-1 unmanned lunar obiter in 2007, with the second and third stages are yet to be completed. In the second phase, the Chang’e-2 satellite will be launched to help deploy moon rovers for surface exploration in 2012. The final step will see a sophisticated space vehicle’s flight to the Moon in 2016 so as to return to Earth with Lunar samples.  

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