Beijing: China’s Tianwen 1 robo­tic probe is set to arrive in Mars’s orbit after a lengthy interplanetary voyage, which will make it the first Chinese spacecraft that has reached the red planet.

Beijing: Chinas Tianwen 1 robotic probe is set to arrive in Marss orbit after a lengthy interplanetary voyage, which will make it the first Chinese spacecraft that has reached the red planet.
The spacecraft is set to conduct a crucial braking operation to decelerate to help the probe be captured by Martian gravity.
One of the most important steps in the Tianwen 1 mission, the Martian orbital insertion operation is scheduled to take place one day after the United Arab Emirates Hope probe, the first interplanetary mission by the Arab world, entered the Red Planets orbit on Tuesday.
Tianwen 1, the countrys first independent Mars mission, was launched by a Long March 5 heavy-lift carrier rocket on July 23 from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province, kicking off the nations planetary exploration programme.
To date, the five-metric-tonne probe, which consists of two major parts the orbiter and the landing capsule has flown for 202 days and nearly 470 million km on its journey to Mars.
During its journey, the spacecraft conducted four mid-course corrections and a deep-space orbital manoeuvre to make sure it was always precisely aimed at Mars. China Daily/ANN