The probe “has completed its research and sampling of the lunar and they are already locked inside it,” the agency said.
The mission plan envisages that the probe’s upper stage will take off into a lunar orbit where it will connect to a module that will transport samples to Earth.
Chang’e 5 spacecraft landed on The moon last Tuesday as part of a mission, the first of its kind since 1976, to collect and deliver samples of rock and moon sand to Earth.
Chang’e 5 is already the third Chinese probe to land on the moon. One of them landed, for the first time in the history of space flights, on the Moon’s hemisphere invisible from Earth.
There is another one on the way to Mars Chinese probe equipped with a rover. Experts emphasize the increasingly ambitious nature China’s space program.
