Mission record
Chang'e 4
Also known as Change4, Yutu 2
China National Space Administration · Launched
Explore trajectoryActive · Active
The first soft landing on the far side of the Moon, which delivered the Yutu-2 rover into Von Karman crater.
- Destinations
- Launch vehicle
- Long March 3B
- Launch site
- Xichang, Peoples Republic of China
- Countries
- Peoples Republic of China
- Mission types
- Lander, Rover
Chronology
Mission timeline
Launch
Chang'e 4 launched on a Long March 3B from Xichang
Landing
Chang'e 4 became the first spacecraft to make a controlled landing on the far side of the Moon
MoonDeployment
Yutu-2 rolled down the ramps onto the lunar surface
Mission architecture
Vehicles
Trajectory record
Time-dependent navigation trajectory
Source states place the model at the selected time. Reconstructed flight, estimates, predictions and historical mission plans are identified by interval; gaps remain visible.
Source records and sampling assumptions are retained with the repository data. Model attitude and surface appearance are illustrative.
- Chang'e 4 landed hardware: Physically reconstructed based on publicly available data · bounded LROC fixed-site estimate · January 5, 2019 to February 5, 2019
Provenance
Sources
Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.
Data verified through September 14, 2026
- Chang'e 4 - NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog — NSSDCAMission page · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- GRAS Chinese lunar exploration science catalog and original product descriptions — OTHERTechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- CNSA: original Yutu surface photograph — CNSATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- DE421 lunar mean-Earth and principal-axes frame specification — NAIFTechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- DE440 lunar mean-Earth and principal-axes frame specification — NAIFSpice · Supports: destination/body context
- IAU rotational elements and body radii (PCK 00011) — NAIFSpice · Supports: destination/body context
- LOLA global lunar height maps, LDEM_4 V3 original PDS source label — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- LOLA 2023 south-polar elevation, uncertainty and effective-resolution maps — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Seen From Above: LROC site and terrain context — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- Moon Facts — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context
- SLDEM2015 Blue Ghost region: original PDS elevation-grid label — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- JPL Solar System Dynamics Astrodynamic Parameters — JPLOther · Supports: destination/body context