Queqiao-1
Success
MAY 20201821:28:00 UTCQueqiao - 'Magpie Bridge' in Mandarin - settled into a halo orbit around Earth-Moon L2 to relay signals between ground stations and Chang'e 4, which in January 2019 became the first spacecraft to land on the Moon's far side.
Longjiang-2, one of two microsatellites co-launched to test low-frequency radio astronomy from lunar orbit, entered orbit around the Moon and became the smallest spacecraft to have done so under its own propulsion; Longjiang-1 failed to reach lunar orbit.
LIFTOFF
MAY 20 201821:28:00 UTC
Success
launched from LC-3 Xichang
aboard Long March 4C 4C-Y27 into Earth-Moon L2
Payloads · 3
- 01
Queqiao
Communications
- 02
Longjiang-1
Radio astronomy
- 03
Longjiang-2
Radio astronomy
