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Within 2007 China will launch a lunar probe

Beijing, China - The probe will be placed in orbit around the Moon

The director of the lunar program of Beijing announced that China is going to launch its own first automatic probe on the Moon within 2007. The probe, than currently is under construction, will be placed in orbit around the Moon and it will study it for at least one year, creating the premises for a successive program that plans in 2010 the "soft" landing of a robot which will study the ambient and...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 60808
Rome, Italy, 03/26/2004 17:29
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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