China is building a clinical station on the moon and has begun conducting preparatory research, a key figure said in the country’s lunar exploration program.
“The next steps of our lunar exploration company will be complicated and not easy, as our goal is to install a clinical outpost at the moon’s south pole. In the near future, we will also send our astronauts to land on the moon. “said Wu Weiren, lead designer of China’s lunar exploration program and professor at the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Lately he’s doing feasibility plans and studies on the proposed station and the fourth level of the lunar program.
The scientist made the statements in a rite Tuesday in china’s National Space Administration that announced that an asteroid had been named in his honor.
The asteroid was discovered in August 2007 by researchers at the Xuyi Station in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province, which is part of the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Nanjing.
The resolution passed through the International Astronomical Union in June to honor its significant contribution to China’s far and lunar exploration programs.
China’s top recent lunar mission, the Chang’e four-robot probe, which consists of a desk landing module and a rover named Yutu 2, rose on a Long March 3B carrier rocket in December 2018 at the Xichang satellite release center in Sichuan, southwest China. marking the country’s fourth lunar exploration and the first expedition to the global in the other aspect of the Moon, which never looks at Earth.
The probe made a graceful landing in the other aspect on January 3, 2019, then launched Yutu 2 to traverse and monitor the landing in the South Pole-Aitken basin, the largest and best-known inner basin in the solar system.
The air module and rover operated for more than 610 days. As the world’s longest operating lunar vehicle, the Yutu 2 traveled about 520 meters on the lunar surface, according to the administration.