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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 lunar sample return mission, aim to return at least 100 grams of lunar soil and rock samples back to the Earth. The probe will be launched in Wenchang Satellite Launch Center by Long March 5 rocket on Hainan Island, and make a soft landing on the Moon. 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 take off from lunar surface, make an automatic dock with the return module on lunar orbit before flying back to the Earth.

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