Also the China arrives on the Moon: thrown mission in the orbit of the terrestrial satellite
The China has thrown the last purpose in October his first satellite in the orbit of the Moon.
The satellite - called Chang' and, like the mythical Chinese goddess who lives on the Moon - it has been thrown by the Xichang polygon, in the northwest province of the Sichuan.
The event has been broadcast live by the television of state, the Cctv. According to a sounding spread by the agency New China, 99 % of the Chinese has asserted of having followed the broadcasting. Difficult still to know the veracity of the affirmation: in China the TV, since el remain all the information means, they are under the narrowest government control.
The “window of timeliness”‘ for the throwing, has specified Them Guoping, the mouthpiece of Chinese Space Administration, was going to 24 in October 26. On the grounds of the forecasts meterologiche, the throwing and’ been fixed for 18 premises in October 24 (the 12 in Italy), but they miss exact data on the departure.
The Chang' mission and it represents the first step of the program of lunar exploration of the China. In the following phases, beforehand a sounding line will be sent on the lunar surface, then astronauts will try to go down on the Moon for the first time after the enterprise completed in 1969 at the Americans Neil's Armstrong, Micheal Collins and Buzz Aldrin.
One of the last taboos falls so of the western supremacy: the control of the space. The China it has been in fact the third country after USA and Russia to send astronauts in the space, in two complete missions completed in 2003 and in 2005.
It seems that the definitive decision on the throwing of the mission has been a lasted catching 17esimo congress of the Chinese Communist Party, which has confirmed the secretary general Hu Jintao as president of the Country and leader of the Central Military Commission.
