Beijing: China’s Chang’e 5 robotic lunar probe carried out a braking manoeuvre and successfully entered lunar orbit, said China’s National Space Administration.
The administration said that its carrier spacecraft was activated at 8.58pm and worked about 17 minutes when the probe reached about 400km above the moon.
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