Chang'e 5-T1 - Wikipedia

Chinese lunar probe (2014–2020) Chang'e 5-T1

Chang'e 5-T1's re-entry module (Xiaofei) after vacuum thermal tests on 13 June 2014.
Mission type	Chang'e 5 precursor missionLunar flyby and Earth reentry
Operator	CNSA
COSPAR ID	2014-065A
SATCAT no.	40283
Mission duration	Flyby/orbiter:  8 days (planned)  6 years, 1 month, 1 day (final) Return capsule:  8 days, 4 hours, 42 minutes
Spacecraft properties
Bus	DFH-3A[1]
Manufacturer	CAST
Launch mass	3,300 kg (7,300 lb)[2]
BOL mass	~2,215 kg (4,883 lb)[2]
Landing mass	335 kg (739 lb)[2]
Start of mission
Launch date	23 October 2014, 18:00 (2014-10-23UTC18) UTC[3][4]
Rocket	Long March 3C/G2
Launch site	Xichang LC-2
End of mission
Disposal	Decommissioned/Recovered
Last contact	24 November 2020, 08:50 (2020-11-24UTC08:51) UTC[5]Flyby/orbiter
Landing date	31 October 2014, 22:42 (2014-10-31UTC22:43) UTC[6][7]Return capsule
Landing site	Siziwang Banner, Inner Mongolia
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Lunar free return
Chinese Lunar Exploration Program← Chang'e 3Queqiao-1 →

Chang'e 5-T1 (Chinese: 嫦娥五号T1; pinyin: Cháng'é wǔhào T1) was an experimental robotic spacecraft that was launched to the Moon on 23 October 2014, by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) to conduct atmospheric re-entry tests on the capsule design planned to be used in the Chang'e 5 mission.[3][8][9] As part of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, Chang'e 5, launched in 2020, was a Moon sample return mission. Like its predecessors, the spacecraft is named after the Chinese Moon goddess Chang'e. The craft consisted of a return vehicle capsule and a service module orbiter.[10]

The return capsule of Chang'e 5-T1, named Xiaofei (Chinese: 小飞), meaning "little flyer" in Chinese, landed in Siziwang Banner, Inner Mongolia, on 31 October 2014, 22:42 UTC. The CE-5-T1 Service Module entered lunar orbit on 13 January 2015.[11] Its initial orbit was 200 x 5,300 km with a period of 8 hours.

Characteristics

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It consisted of a DFH-3A "Chang'e 2 type" spacecraft with a mass of approximately 2,215 kg (including 1,065 kg of fuel)[12] carrying the Chang'e 5 return capsule with a mass of under 335 kg.[13] The craft was launched by a Long March 3C rocket into a lunar free return trajectory. It looped behind the Moon and returned to Earth, with the return capsule testing the high speed atmospheric skip reentry.

The DFH-3A "service module" remained in orbit around the Earth before being relocated via Earth-Moon L2 to lunar Lissajous orbit by 13 January 2015, where it will use its remaining 800 kg of fuel to test maneuvers key to future lunar missions.[14]

In February and March 2015, the DFH-3A "service module" performed two "virtual target" rendezvous tests for the future Chang'e 5 mission. In April 2015, the small monitoring camera was used to obtain higher resolution photos of Chang'e 5's landing zone.

Mission profile

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Main Mission

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• Launch: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, 23 October 2014, 18:00 UTC
• Nominal mission duration: Chang'e 5 return capsule: 196 hours (8.17 days)
• Nominal mission duration: DFH-3A: Ongoing
• Lunar fly-by: 97 hours after final orbit insertion (4.04 days)
• Periselenium: ≈13,000 km from Moon surface
• Distance of Moon from Earth at closest fly-by: ≈373,000 km[15][16][17]
• Landing: Siziwang Banner, Inner Mongolia, 31 October 2014, 22:42 UTC

Lunar Orbiter

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In January 2015, the service module transitioned to lunar orbit, orbiting at 200x5300 km. It was still active in early 2018[1] and was last heard by amateur radio-astronomers in late 2020.[5]

Third stage disposal

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The Long March 3C third stage booster, left in orbit between the Earth and the Moon, was predicted to hit, and did hit, the Moon on March 4, 2022, impacting near the Hertzsprung crater.[21][20] Independent spectral analysis from the University of Arizona confirmed its Chinese origin.[22] NASA has published a note on the event. China's foreign ministry has denied this identification, stating that the booster had already burned up in the Earth's atmosphere (albeit referring to the later Chang'e 5 mission in his answer).[23][19] The US Space Command confirmed the third stage never reentered in Earth's atmosphere,[24] and a compatible item is now present on the Space-Track catalogue as object 85900.[25] The impactor object was previously misidentified as 2015-007B, the second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket which launched NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft, but was later correctly identified as the Long March stage in February 2022. The event showed the challenges of tracking small objects in deep space, underlining the importance of sustainability in space operations going forward.[26]

In June 2022, a compatible double crater was found by the LROC team at the same location previously estimated,[18][27] and later by Chandrayaan-2 OHRC.[28]

Secondary payloads

[edit] Further information: Manfred Memorial Moon Mission

Chang'e 5-T1 also carried the first commercial payload to the Moon[29] called the 4M mission (Manfred Memorial Moon Mission) for the German space technology company OHB System, in honor of the company's founder, Manfred Fuchs, who died in 2014. Technical management of the 4M mission was performed by LuxSpace. The payload weighs 14 kilograms and contains two scientific instruments. The first instrument is a radio beacon to test a new approach for locating spacecraft. Amateur radio operators were encouraged via prize incentives to receive the transmissions and send the results back to LuxSpace.[30] The second instrument, a radiation dosimeter provided by the Spanish company iC-Málaga, continuously measured radiation levels throughout the satellite's circumlunar path.[31][32]

The spacecraft also carries a radiation exposure experiment with bacteria and plants.[1][33][34]

See also

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• Chinese space program
  • Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP)
• Exploration of the Moon
• List of missions to the Moon
• Robotic exploration of the Moon

References

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1. ^ a b c "Chang'e 5-T1 (CE 5-T1)". Gunter's Space Page. 23 October 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
2. ^ a b c "Chang'e 5-T1" (PDF). NASA. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
3. ^ a b "Chinese Long March Rocket successfully launches Lunar Return Demonstrator". Spaceflight101. 23 October 2014. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
4. ^ "China launches test return orbiter for lunar mission". Xinhuanet. 24 October 2014. Archived from the original on 23 October 2014.
5. ^ a b Scott Tilley [@coastal8049] (24 November 2020). "CE5T1 coming in loud and clear now as Moon clears the trees. Sidebands present. Made a change over timing to allow for accurate tracking moving forward" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
6. ^ "China completes first mission to moon and back". Space Daily. 1 November 2014. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
7. ^ "中国探月工程三期再入返回飞行试验获圆满成功". 中国新闻网. 31 October 2014.
8. ^ "CLunar mission：craft to conduct re-entry tests before 2015". Xinhuanet. 14 December 2013. Archived from the original on 31 October 2015.
9. ^ "China's Lunar Probe Tester Ready for Chang'e 5 Mission". CRIEnglish News. 11 August 2013. Archived from the original on 19 October 2014.
10. ^ "Chang'e 5 Test Mission". Spaceflight 101. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
11. ^ "Service module of China's lunar orbiter enters 127-minute orbit - Xinhua | English.news.cn". Archived from the original on 25 January 2015.
12. ^ "Chang'e 5 Test Mission Updates". Spaceflight 101. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
13. ^ "Chang'e 5-T1". NSSDCA. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
14. ^ "Chang'e 5 Test Mission Updates". Spaceflight 101. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
15. ^ "The mission". LuxSpace. Archived from the original on 13 September 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
16. ^ "ANS-278 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins". AMSAT News Service. 5 October 2014. Archived from the original on 21 October 2014. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
17. ^ "天津航天爱好者谈嫦娥五号飞行试验器". Archived from the original on 19 October 2014. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
18. ^ a b Campbell, Tanner; Battle, Adam; Gray, Bill; Chesley, Steven R.; Farnocchia, Davide; Pearson, Neil; Halferty, Grace; Reddy, Vishnu; Furfaro, Roberto (1 November 2023). "Physical Characterization of Moon Impactor WE0913A". The Planetary Science Journal. 4 (11): 217. Bibcode:2023PSJ.....4..217C. doi:10.3847/PSJ/acffb8. hdl:10150/671801.
19. ^ a b "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Retrieved 3 March 2022. The booster used to launch Chang'e 5-T1 went into a highly elliptical Earth orbit after launch. Some calculations show it is on a trajectory to impact the far side of the Moon on March 4, 2022, although China's foreign ministry denied this identification, stating that the booster had already burned up in the Earth's atmosphere. Estimated time of impact for the object is 12:26 UT (7:26 a.m. EST), estimated position at latitude 5.18 N, longitude 233.55 E.
20. ^ a b "Pseudo-MPEC for 2014-065B = NORAD 40284 = Chang'e 5-T1 booster = lunar impactor on 2022 Mar 04". projectpluto.com. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
21. ^ Eric Berger (13 February 2022). "Astronomers now say the rocket about to strike the Moon is not a Falcon 9". Ars Technica.
22. ^ "UArizona students confirm errant rocket's Chinese origin, track lunar collision course". University of Arizona News. 15 February 2022. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
23. ^ Jones, Andrew (21 February 2022). "China claims rocket stage destined for lunar impact is not from its 2014 moon mission". SpaceNews. Retrieved 21 March 2023. An element of possible confusion remains over which mission Wang referred to on Monday in response to the question about the impending lunar impact from the Associated Press. Both Chinese and English transcripts and Chinese language video of the press conference refer to the "Chang'e-5 mission," rather than the Chang'e-5 T1 mission specifically.
24. ^ "Moon impact: Chinese rocket stage still in space says U.S. Space Command". SpaceNews. 2 March 2022. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
25. ^ "Jonathan McDowell "In tonight's Space-Track TLEs, analyst object 85900 appears to be the Moon-bound rocket, tracked in a 45785 x 686954 km x 37.0 deg orbit"". Twitter. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
26. ^ Jones, Andrew (21 February 2022). "China claims rocket stage destined for lunar impact is not from its 2014 moon mission". SpaceNews. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
27. ^ Robinson, Mark (23 June 2022). "Mystery Rocket Body Found!". Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. Arizona State University. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
28. ^ @Ramanean (9 February 2023). "Chandraayan2's OHRC has also captured images of the unknown spacecraft impact site (The suspected Chinese rocket crashed into the #Moon on March 4th, 2022)" (Tweet). Retrieved 21 March 2023 – via Twitter.
29. ^ "First commercial mission to the moon launched from China". Spaceflight Now. 25 October 2014. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
30. ^ "4M Reception Contest". LuxSpace. Archived from the original on 24 October 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
31. ^ "China Readies Moon Mission for Launch Next Week". Space.com. 14 October 2014.
32. ^ "China Poised to Launch Next Moon Mission on Thursday". Space.com. 22 October 2014.
33. ^ Aron, Jacob (20 October 2014). "China set to launch probe on round trip to the moon". New Scientist. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
34. ^ Barbosa, Rui C. (23 October 2014). "China launches lunar sample return test mission". NASA Space Flight.

External links

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• Manfred Memorial Moon Mission (4M) – Official website for secondary payload at Chang'e 5-T1
• Pocket Spacecraft – Space exploration for everyone Archived 14 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine – Official website for another secondary payload at Chang'e 5-T1

v t e Chinese Lunar Exploration Program
China National Space Administration Chinese space program
Missions	Chang'e 1 (Oct 2007) Chang'e 2 (Oct 2010) Chang'e 3 (Dec 2013) Yutu rover Chang'e 5-T1 (Oct 2014) Queqiao (relay satellite, May 2018) Chang'e 4 (Dec 2018) Yutu-2 rover Chang'e 5 (Nov 2020) Queqiao 2 (relay satellite, Mar 2024) Tiandu 1 and 2 Chang'e 6 (May 2024) Chang'e 7 (2026) Chang'e 8 (2028)
Launch vehicles	Long March 3A Long March 3B Long March 3C Long March 5 Long March 8
Facilities	Xichang Satellite Launch Center Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site
People	Zhang Qingwei Ouyang Ziyuan Ma Xingrui Ye Peijian
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Data relay satellite system	Queqiao and Queqiao 2 Tiandu 1 and 2 Tianlian Constellation
Satellite navigation system	BeiDou-1 BeiDou-2 Beidou-3
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Lunar exploration	Chinese Lunar Exploration Program Chang'e 1 Chang'e 2 Chang'e 3 Yutu Chang'e 5-T1 Chang'e 4 Yutu-2 Chang'e 5 Chang'e 6 Chang'e 7 Chang'e 8
Planetary exploration	Yinghuo-1 Chang'e 2 Tianwen-1 Zhurong Shensuo Tianwen-2 Tianwen-3 Tianwen-4
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Proposedmissions	Robotic ALINA Artemis-7 Beresheet 2 Blue Moon BOLAS Garatéa-L ISOCHRON LunaNet Lunar Crater Radio Telescope McCandless Moon Diver Crewed DSE-Alpha Boeing Lunar Lander Lockheed Martin Lunar Lander Lunar Orbital Station
Cancelled /concepts	Altair Baden-Württemberg 1 #dearMoon project European Lunar Explorer First Lunar Outpost International Lunar Network LEO LK Lunar-A Lunar Lander Lunar Mission One Lunar Observer Lunokhod 3 MoonLITE MoonRise OrbitBeyond Project Harvest Moon Prospector Resource Prospector SELENE-2 Ukrselena XL-1 VIPER
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Active space probes(deep space missions)	Sun Parker Solar Probe Solar Orbiter Carruthers Geocorona Observatory Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 Moon ARTEMIS CAPSTONE Chandrayaan-2 Chang'e 3 Chang'e 4 (Yutu-2 rover) Chang'e 5 Danuri Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Queqiao Queqiao 2 Tiandu 1 and 2 Chang'e 6 ICUBE-Q Mars Emirates Mars Mission ExoMars TGO Mars Express 2001 Mars Odyssey MAVEN MRO MSL Curiosity rover Tianwen-1 Mars 2020 Perseverance rover Other planets BepiColombo Mercury Juno Jupiter Juice Jupiter Europa Clipper Jupiter Minor planets Chang'e 2 Hayabusa2 / MINERVA-II Lucy New Horizons OSIRIS-REx Hera Psyche Tianwen-2 Interstellar space Voyager 1 Voyager 2
Completed after 2000(by termination date)	2000s 2001 NEAR Shoemaker Deep Space 1 2003 Pioneer 10 Galileo Nozomi 2004 Genesis 2005 Huygens 2006 Mars Global Surveyor 2008 Phoenix 2009 Chang'e 1 Ulysses Chandrayaan-1 SELENE LCROSS 2010s 2010 Hayabusa MER Spirit rover 2011 Stardust 2012 GRAIL 2013 Deep Impact 2014 LADEE Venus Express Chang'e 5-T1 2015 MESSENGER PROCYON IKAROS 2016 Rosetta / Philae Yutu rover ExoMars Schiaparelli 2017 LISA Pathfinder Cassini 2018 MASCOT Dawn Longjiang-1 2019 MarCO MER Opportunity rover Beresheet Longjiang-2 Chandrayaan-2 / Pragyan rover 2020s 2020 Chang'e 5 2022 Double Asteroid Redirection Test Mangalyaan InSight 2023 Hakuto-R Mission 1 Luna 25 Chandrayaan-3 / Pragyan rover Zhurong rover 2024 Peregrine Mission One Ingenuity helicopter IM-1 Akatsuki SLIM 2025 Brokkr-2 IM-2 Lunar Trailblazer Blue Ghost Mission 1 Hakuto-R Mission 2
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« 2013 2015 »
Space probe launches	Chang'e 5-T1 (mission to the Moon; Oct 2014) Hayabusa2 / PROCYON (asteroid sample-return mission; Dec 2014)
Impact events	2014 AA 2014 Ontario fireball
Selected NEOs	Asteroid close approaches 2000 EM26 (163132) 2002 CU11 (388188) 2006 DP14 2007 VK184 (410777) 2009 FD 2009 RR (529366) 2009 WM1 2014 AF5 2014 DX110 2014 EC 2014 HQ124 2014 LY21 2014 OO6 2014 OL339 2014 RC 2014 SC324 2014 XL7
Exoplanets	51 Eridani b rotation of Beta Pictoris b Gliese 15 Ab Gliese 180 c Gliese 682 c Gliese 832 c GU Piscium b HIP 116454 b Kapteyn b Kepler-93b Kepler-186f Kepler-296 e f Kepler-298d Kepler-419 b c Kepler-421b WASP-104b
Discoveries	SMSS J0313−6708 Rings of Chariklo 2012 VP113 (announced) 532037 Chiminigagua (2013 FY27) (announced) 486958 Arrokoth (2014 MU69) ULAS J0015+01 Laniakea Supercluster
Novae	SN 2014J iPTF14hls
Comets	C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy) C/2014 E2 (Jacques) C/2013 UQ4 (Catalina) C/2012 K1 (PANSTARRS) C/2013 V5 (Oukaimeden) C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) C/2014 Q1 (PanSTARRS) C/2014 Q3 (Borisov) C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) 15P/Finlay
Space exploration	Kepler K2 mission extension (May) Rosetta/Philae (orbits/landing 67P; Aug/Nov) MAVEN (Mars orbit insertion; Sep) Mars Orbiter Mission (Mars orbit insertion; Sep) Dawn (approaches Ceres; Sep 2014 / Mar 2015) Venus Express (Venus mission ends; Dec)
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v t e ← 2013Orbital launches in 20142015 →
January	GSAT-14 Thaicom 6 CRS Orb-1 (Flock-1 × 28, ArduSat-2, Lituanica SAT-1, LitSat-1, SkyCube, UAPSat-1) TDRS-L
February	Progress M-22M ABS-2, Athena-Fidus Türksat 4A USA-248 GPM Core, Ginrei, KSAT-2, INVADER, OPUSAT, STARS-II, TeikyoSat-3, ITF-1
March	Ekspress AT1, Ekspress AT2 Astra 5B, Amazonas 4A Kosmos 2494 Soyuz TMA-12M Shijian XI-06
April	USA-249 / DMSP-5D3 F19 Sentinel-1A IRNSS-1B Progress M-23M Ofek-10 USA-250 EgyptSat 2 SpaceX CRS-3 (KickSat) Luch 5V, KazSat-3
May	Kosmos 2495 Ekspress AM4R USA-251 USA-252 Kosmos 2496, Kosmos 2497, Kosmos 2498, Kosmos 2499 ALOS-2, Raijin-2, UNIFORM-1, SOCRATES, SPROUT Eutelsat 3B Soyuz TMA-13M
June	Kosmos 2500 / GLONASS-M 755 AprizeSat 9, AprizeSat 10, BRITE-Montreal, BRITE-Toronto, BugSat 1, Deimos-2, Hodoyoshi 3, Hodoyoshi 4, KazEOSat 2, Perseus-M1, Perseus-M2, SaudiSat-4, TabletSat-Aurora, UniSat-6 (Lemur-1, Tigrisat), Flock-1c × 11 SPOT 7, CanX-4, CanX-5
July	OCO-2 Gonets-M × 3 Meteor-M No.2 O3b × 4 CRS Orb-2 (Flock-1b × 28, TechEdSat-4) Orbcomm-OG2 × 6 Foton-M No.4 Progress M-24M USA-253 / GSSAP 1, USA-254 / GSSAP 2, USA-255 / ANGELS Georges Lemaître ATV
August	USA-256 AsiaSat 8 Yaogan 20 A, B, C WorldView-3 Gaofen 2, Heweliusz Galileo FOC-1, Galileo FOC-2
September	Chuangxin 1-04, Lingqiao AsiaSat 6 Yaogan 21, Tiantuo 2 MEASAT 3b, Optus 10 USA-257 SpaceX CRS-4 Soyuz TMA-14M Olimp-K Shijian XI-07
October	Himawari 8 IRNSS-1C ARSAT-1, Intelsat 30 Yaogan 22 Ekspress AM6 Chang'e 5-T1, 4M Shijian 11-08 Cygnus CRS Orb-3† (Arkyd-3†, Flock-1d × 26†) Progress M-25M USA-258 / GPS IIF 8 Meridian 7
November	Sasuke, Hodoyoshi 1, Kinshachi 1, Tsukushi, TSUBAME Yaogan 23 Yaogan 24 Kuaizhou 2 Soyuz TMA-15M Kosmos 2501
December	Hayabusa2, PROCYON, Shinen 2, DESPATCH Orion EFT-1 DirecTV-14, GSAT-16 CBERS-4 Yaogan 25 A, B, C USA-259 Yamal-401 O3b × 4 (FM9 to FM12) Kondor-E No.2 IPM Kosmos 2502 Resurs-P No.2 Yaogan 26 Astra 2G Fengyun 2-08
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