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Chang'e 5 will be a Chinese lunar exploration mission current scheduled for launch in 2017. Chang'e 5 will be China's first sample return mission, aim to return at least 2 kilograms of lunar soil and rock samples back to the Earth. The probe will be launched by Long March 5 rocket in Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on Hainan Island. After making a soft landing on the Moon, the lander will dig and collect lunar sample from up to 2 meters below the surface. The lander will carry engineer landing cameras, optical cameras, lunar mineral spectrometer, lunar soil gas analytical instrument, lunar soil composition analytical instrument, sampling sectional thermodetector, and a robotic drilling rig. Unlike earlier Soviet missions, the mission will make an automatic rendezvous and docking with the return module on lunar orbit before flying back to the Earth.

References

1. 张巧玲 (2011年12月9日). "欧阳自远院士描绘嫦娥工程后续蓝图" (in Chinese). 科学时报. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
2. http://www.asianscientist.com/topnews/china-unmanned-moon-mission-to-bring-back-lunar-soil-2012/

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• Chinese Lunar Exploration Program
• Missions to the Moon
• Sample return missions
• Unmanned spacecraft
• 2017 in spaceflight
• Robots of China
• 2017 in China