Mars mission: China prepares to launch Long March-5 rocket
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Mars mission: China prepares to launch Long March-5 rocket

Mars mission: China prepares to launch Long March-5 rocket
FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019 file photo, a Mars lander is lifted during a test for its hovering, obstacle avoidance and deceleration capabilities at a facility at Huailai in China's Hebei province. The site outside Beijing simulated conditions on the red planet, where the pull of gravity is about one-third that of Earth. China will launch their Mars rover and an orbiter sometime around July 23, 2020, in a mission named Tianwen, or Questions for Heaven. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)


The fourth Long March-5 rocket of China's first Mars exploration mission, was vertically transported to the launching area at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China's Hainan Province on Friday.

The carrier rocket, coded as Long March-5 Y4, will be launched in late July or early August, according to the China National Space Administration, reports Xinhua.

This is the first time the Long March-5 carrier rocket, currently China's largest launch vehicle, has been put into practical use after three experimental launches.

The rocket is expected to send the Mars probe into the Earth-Mars transfer orbit, which is also the first such mission to be carried out by China's carrier rocket.

China's first Mars exploration mission Tianwen-1 aims to complete orbiting, landing and roving in one mission, and to obtain scientific exploration data on Mars.

 

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