Mission type | Technology demonstration |
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Operator | Deep Space Exploration Laboratory CNSA |
Mission duration | 5 months, 6 days (in progress) |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Tiandu |
Manufacturer | Deep Space Exploration Laboratory |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 20 March 2024, 00:31 UTC[1] |
Rocket | Long March 8[2] |
Launch site | Wenchang Space Launch Site LC-2[3] |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Selenocentric elliptic orbit |
Lunar orbiter | |
Orbital insertion | 24 March 2024, 17:43 UTC[4] |
Tiandu satellites are a pair of Chinese Lunar Exploration Program's lunar navigation and communications test satellites based on Queqiao-2 relay satellite technology.[5][6][7][8]
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