Chinese launched Robot 's National Space Administration ( CNSA ) has reportedly reached lunar orbit on Friday, December 6, 2013 . It was not until five days until the first robot on the Moon 's orbit after launch from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province , China .
Reported by Softpedia on Monday ( 12/09/2013 ) , the robot spacecraft carrier consists of a ' lander ' and rover with six wheels as driving . This month explorer device developed at the Shanghai Aerospace System Engineering Instituted and weighs 1,200 kilograms .
Space missions initiated since the launch of the rover named by Yutu on December 1, 2013 using a Long March 3B carrier system . Now, the spacecraft is in orbit around the Moon and prepare for landing on December 14, 2013 .
Months sites will be trampled by the Chinese spacecraft called Sinus Iridium , or Bay of Rainbows . This location contains the remains of a large crater , where the first investigators believe that the Moon was once hit by a large asteroid .
Now, the spacecraft was at an altitude of 100 kilometers above the surface of the Moon . This robot has a suspected nuclear heaters containing plutonium - 238 .
Yutu , naming the space robot emerges from a voting system that is followed by 190 thousand participants . Robot glides on December 1, 2013 at 17:30 GMT .
" Yutu is a symbol of goodness , purity , agility and identical to the rover moon , " said Li Benzheng , Deputy Commander of the Chinese Lunar Program . Having a six wheeled robot will spend time during the three months to roam the Moon .
