On June 12, the National Space Administration held a press conference in Beijing to introduce China's first Mars exploration mission.
China National Space Administration spokesperson Xu Hongliang said at the meeting that the success of the Tianwen-1 mission is a landmark achievement of China's independent innovation and leapfrog development in the space industry.
In the history of China’s aerospace development, the Tianwen-1 mission has achieved six firsts. One is the first launch of a ground-fire transfer orbit probe; the second is the first interplanetary flight; the third is the first soft landing on an extraterrestrial planet; and the fourth is the first. Realize the patrol and detection of the surface of extraterrestrial planets; Fifth, for the first time to realize the measurement and control communication at a distance of 400 million kilometers; Sixth, for the first time to obtain first-hand scientific data on Mars.
Xu Hongliang said that in the world's space history, Tianwen-1 not only left a Chinese mark on Mars for the first time, but also successfully achieved the three major goals of circumnavigating, landing and patrolling Mars in a single mission, fully demonstrating the Chinese astronauts. The wisdom of China marks China’s entry into the world’s advanced ranks in the field of planetary exploration.
(Reporter Xu Pengpeng produced Zhou Jing)
Editor in charge: [Wang Kai]