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ICUBE-QAMAR

Also known as ICUBE-Q, iCube-Qamar

Institute of Space Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Launched

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Completed · Success

Chang'e-6 launched with four international payloads including Pakistan's ICUBE-Q CubeSat; it separated from the orbiter on May 8 and was successfully deployed in lunar orbit. China delivered CubeSat data to Pakistan on May 10.

Destinations
Launch vehicle
Long March 5
Launch site
Wenchang Space Launch Center
Countries
Pakistan, China
Mission types
Orbiter

Chronology

Mission timeline

  1. Launch

    ICUBE-QAMAR launched aboard Chang'e-6 on a Long March 5 from Wenchang Space Launch Center

    Shared Chang’e-6 launch clock:17:27 China standard time, converted to UTC. APP’s conflicting14:18PST value is not adopted.

    Earth

  2. Deployment

    ICUBE-QAMAR successfully deployed in lunar orbit from Chang'e-6

    Flight-team paper reports separation at 16:14 on 8 May 2024 near lunar apoapsis; the UTC clock assumes the paper's Chinese local clock follows Beijing time, as its tracking-arc table explicitly does. The time-zone interpretation is an inference.

    Moon

  3. Milestone

    China delivered ICUBE-QAMAR data to Pakistan

  4. Mission end

    Successful operation of payloads from Pakistan in Chang'e-6

    Moon

Mission architecture

Vehicles

  • ICUBE-QAMAR · Spacecraft

    Destinations: Moon

Trajectory record

Trajectory dataset not yet available

Known dates and encounters do not uniquely determine a flight path. This mission’s sourced timeline is available above; no verified trajectory is currently published here.

What is needed to reconstruct this path?
  • The orbit-determination paper reports the solved-orbit precision but does not publish dated state vectors or the underlying Doppler series.
  • Its rounded perilune, eccentricity, inclination and period omit node, argument of periapsis, anomaly and a specified reference frame/epoch.
  • The separation UTC conversion assumes the Beijing-time convention explicit in the paper's tracking table; the separation sentence itself does not repeat the time zone.

Provenance

Sources

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Data verified through October 11, 2026