China News Service, Beijing, June 12 (Guo Chaokai, Marshuaisha) China National Space Administration held a press conference in Beijing on the 12th to introduce my country'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 independent innovation and leapfrog development in my country's aerospace industry.
In the history of my country’s aerospace development, the Tianwen-1 mission has achieved six firsts. One is the first to launch a ground-fire transfer orbit probe; the second is to achieve interplanetary flight; the third is to achieve a soft landing on an extraterrestrial planet; and the fourth is the first. Realize the patrol and detection of the surface of extraterrestrial planets; Fifth, it is the first time to realize the measurement and control communication at a distance of 400 million kilometers; Sixth, it is 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 the United States marks my country’s entry into the world’s advanced ranks in the field of planetary exploration.
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