Yinghuo-1
Yinghuo-1 was a Chinese spacecraft.[5] People planned for it to be China's first interplanetary mission.[5] Yinghuo-1 was supposed to orbit and study the planet Mars.[5] It was launched with the Russian spacecraft Phobos-Grunt.[5] The spacecraft got into space, but something went wrong and it could not escape earth's gravity.
Mission type | Mars orbiter |
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Operator | CNSA |
COSPAR ID | {{#property:P247}} |
Mission duration | 1 year in Mars orbit (planned) Never departed Earth orbit |
Spacecraft properties | |
Launch mass | 115 kilograms (254 lb)[1] |
Dimensions | 750mm x 750mm x 650mm (stowed)[1] |
Power | Solar array |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 8 November 2011, 20:16:03[2][3][4] | UTC
Rocket | Zenit-2M |
Launch site | Baikonur 45/1 |
Deployed from | Fobos-Grunt (planned) |
End of mission | |
Decay date | 15 January 2012 |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Areocentric (planned) Geocentric (achieved) |
Regime | Low Earth (achieved) |
Perigee | 800 kilometres (500 mi) (planned) |
Apogee | 80,000 kilometres (50,000 mi) (planned) |
Inclination | 5 degrees (planned) |
Period | 3 days (planned) |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lakdawalla, Emily (9 September 2010). "China's Yinghuo-1 Mars Orbiter". The Planetary Society. Archived from the original on 1 April 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2011.
- ↑ "Russia takes aim at Phobos". Nature.com. 4 November 2011. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
- ↑ (in ru). РИА Новости. 21 September 2009. http://www.rian.ru/science/20090921/185905786.html. Retrieved 21 September 2009.
- ↑ "Solar System Exploration". Archived from the original on 14 June 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 "Yinghuo-1: Read More". NASA. Archived from the original on 2014-12-25. Retrieved 2011-08-31.