Technical personnel monitor the rendezvous and docking of the ascender of China's Chang'e-5 probe with the orbiter-returner combination at Beijing Aerospace Control Centre on Sunday (Dec 6, 2020). - Xinhua
BEIJING, Dec 6 (dpa): China's Chang'e-5 lunar probe successfully carried out a remote-controlled rendezvous and docking manoeuvre in lunar orbit on Sunday, according to the China National Space Administration.
In the first such manoeuvre ever carried out by a Chinese spacecraft, Chang'e-5’s ascender transferred samples collected on the moon to the orbiter-returner combination in lunar orbit.
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