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Mission
Kind: Reconnaissance, memorial
State: Successful
Place: Moon
Operator: LuxSpace
Date
Start:
Duration: 19 days
Mission Ending
Last Contact: 11 November 2014, 01:35 UT
Rocket
Rocket: Long March 3C/G2
Kind: LuxSpace
Manufacturer: LuxSpace
Mass: Payload 14 kg, 3rd stage of rocket to which payload was permanently attached 21,000 kg, Nominal total=21,014 kg
Launch Site: Xichang LC-2
Flyby
1º Flyby: Moon
Orbit
Reference System: Geocentric
Lander
"The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing." - Paul Theroux
Manfred Memorial Moon Mission (4M) was the first private lunar probe to successfully fly by the Moon. It was led by LuxSpace, a child company of German OHB System, in honor of OHB Systems founder, professor Manfred Fuchs, who died in 2014, and was launched with the Chinese Chang'e 5-T1 test spacecraft on 23 October 2014. The lunar flyby took place on 28 October 2014, after which the spacecraft entered the elliptical Earth orbit and continued transmission until 11 November 2014, exceeding its designed lifetime by four times.
Additional Info.
web:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Memorial_Moon_Mission