A senior scientist told China daily last December that China’a first Mars probe would be lauched atop a Russian lauch vehicle next October.(m=million)

Chen Cchangya,a reseacher devoted in shanghai institute of satelllite Engineering,said Yinghuo-1 should travel 350m km in 11months before reaching its orbit around Mars.

The probe is a micro-satellite,which weighs only 110kg.

The distance between Mars and Earth is between 56.7m km and 400m km,while lunar orbiter Chang’e 1 trabeled 0.38m km before circling around the Moon.

An official with the shanghai Aerospace Bureau,confirmed the probe’s final name has yet to be decided.

As a milestone in the history of space cooperation between China and Russia，the probe would be lauched along with ‘Photos Explorer ’ a Russian spacecraft ,atop a Russian rocket.

The first successful exlporation of Mars ,sent from United Ststes in 1964,fetch 21 images;The second one belongs former Soviet Unios,1971,sent back data for eight month.

About 4 years ago,NASA’s twin robot geologist landed on Mars,to search for rocks and soils that hold clues to past water activity.

 

Ref :

Tuesday December 4,2007,China Daily

Lauch of Mars probe set for 2009,by Xin Ding Ding

 

萤火一号：11个月或者3亿5千万千米的旅行

 

一位高级科学家，去年12月对《中国日报》说，我国的第一个火星探测器将在2009年10月用俄罗斯火箭发射。

上海卫星工程研究所的研究人员——陈昌亚讲：萤火一号进入轨道之前需要类型3.5亿千米或者11个月。

小卫星萤火一号重仅110千克。

火星与地球的距离大约在5600 万千米至4亿千米之间；而月球探测器进入月球轨道之前的行程为38万千米。

上海航天局的一位官员表示，探测器的名字没有最后敲定。

这个探测器，中俄空间合作历史上的一个里程碑，将由俄罗斯火箭与航天器‘Photos Explorer ’一起发射。

（参考文献：2007年12月4日中国日报，Xin Ding Ding 的报道）

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