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The NSSDCA database is being updated, some functions will be unavailable through Tuesday, April 30. We apologize for the inconvenience. The CNSA (China) Chang'e-6 lunar sample return mission is scheduled to launch on May 3 at 7:50 UT (3:50 a.m. EDT) on a Long March 5 booster from Wenchang Satellite Launch Center. The Voyager 1 spacecraft successfully started transmitting engineering data on 20 April for the first time since November 14, 2023. A software fix circumvented a chip failure that had prevented useful data from being sent. For more, see the JPL news release. Communications were reestablished with the Japanese SLIM lunar lander on March 26 after it survived its second lunar night.
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