China intends to launch the first probe to study Mars in July of this year, said the Chinese Corporation aerospace science and technology (CASC).
The launch will be carried out within the framework of the 13th five-year plan of China (2016-2020), according to the plan of the national programme for the development of Mars, which was approved in 2016. The probe will be delivered to the Red planet in seven months with the help of the carrier rocket “Changzheng-5”, reports TASS cassilly to Xinhua.
The load carrier is 25 tons when flying on low-earth orbit and 14 tons in the case of access to geostationary transfer orbit. In the height of the “Changzheng-5” reaches 57 m in diameter will be 5 meters.
In the future, the Chinese government is going to send on Mars a manned mission.
Recall that in late December, China launched created for the mission to Mars rocket.
