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Chang'e 4 / Yutu-2

-45.450° 177.600° · Von Kármán crater

First soft landing on the lunar far side. Yutu-2 still operating.

Trajectory
Chang'e 4 / Yutu-2 trajectory diagram
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Far-side landing required a precursor relay satellite: Queqiao, launched six months earlier, parked in a halo orbit around the Earth-Moon L2 Lagrange point. Chang'e 4 then used a translunar trajectory, lunar orbit insertion, and a near-vertical powered descent into Von Kármán crater, the first soft landing on the lunar far side, and Yutu-2 is still rolling.

Details
Operator
CNSA
Operator
CNSA
Country
ChinaChina
Era
modern
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