Chang'e 6

Ended

Facts last verified against primary sources on 2026-10-10

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Facts

Operator: CNSA
Country: CN
Type: sample return
Launch: 2024-05-03 09:27 UTC
Landing: 2024-06-01 22:23 UTC
End: 2024-06-25 06:07 UTC

Landing site

Southern Apollo basin, far side (South Pole-Aitken basin) · 41.6385°S 153.9852°W

Soft landing · source: lroc.im-ldi.com

Landed

Planned landing site

Crash or hard landing

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Timeline

2024-05-03 09:27 UTCLaunch (Long March 5, Wenchang)
2024-06-01 22:23 UTCLanding on the far side
2024-06-25 06:07 UTCReturn capsule lands in Inner Mongolia (first far-side samples, 1,935.3 g)

Links

CNSA (English)official
LROC: First Look: Chang'e 6data

Sources

Generated 2026-10-10T00:00:00Z

LROC gives 41.6385°S, 206.0148°E (-5256 m); converted to east-positive [-180,180] as -153.9852. LROC confirms the 1 June 2024 (UTC) landing date. Launch 5:27 p.m. local (Beijing) time 3 May 2024 = 09:27 UTC (Aviation Week); landing 6:23 a.m. Beijing time 2 Jun = 22:23 UTC 1 Jun, per Chinese space officials (Scientific American); return capsule landed 2:07 p.m. Beijing time 25 Jun = 06:07 UTC (Xinhua); 1935.3 g of samples (China News Service). Carried the Jinchan mini-rover. atlas_deep_link is for map display only.