Yinghuo-1

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Yinghuo-1
萤火一号
Organization: CNSA
Mission type: Orbiter
Satellite of: Mars
Launch date: November 2011 (TBC)
Launch vehicle: Zenit rocket
Launch site: Baikonur Cosmodrome
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Yinghuo-1 is a Chinese spacecraft.[1] It is China's first interplanetary mission.[1] Yinghuo-1 will orbit and study the planet Mars.[1] It will be launched with the Russian spacecraft Phobos-Grunt.[1] They will be carried to Mars by a Ukrainian Zenit rocket. The rocket will launch in November 2011, at Baikonur Cosmodrome. The space probe carries several instruments designed to study the surface and atmosphere of the planet.[1] Its mission will last 2 years.

The name Yinghuo means firefly in Chinese.

References [change]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Yinghuo-1: Read More". NASA. http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/profile.cfm?Sort=Target&Target=Mars&MCode=Yinghuo-1&Display=ReadMore. Retrieved 2011-08-31.
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