Beijing: We will not be able to fix "Uto"
China's space agency has announced that its lunar rover, Yutu, is alive and there are zero chances of relaunching it. China successfully landed the "Chang-e-3" spacecraft on the moon about two months ago, including the vehicle intended for geological research of the moon.
The vehicle was supposed to operate for about three months, and reach a distance of hundreds of meters from the mother spacecraft. However, about two and a half weeks ago, Beijing announced deficiencies in the functionality of the lunar rover, without providing details about the nature of the malfunction.
The successful landing on the moon was a source of immense pride in China, which became the third country to land a spacecraft on the moon in a soft landing, after the USA and the USSR, and the first to do so after almost 40 years.
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Good morning, the rabbit woke up!
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