New Frontier in Lunar Exploration: China’s Chang’e 6 Mission to the Moon to Carry Pakistani Satellite

China is launching an ambitious lunar mission, Chang’e 6 its scheduled for launch in the first half of 2024. What makes the mission more exciting is that it will carry satellite from Pakistan to the moon.

China’s National space agency (CNSA) Announced the Mission on popular Social Media platform Weibo. In addition to the Pakistani satellite, Chang’ 6 will carry payloads from the European Space agency (ESA), France and Italy.

Scientific instruments on board include French instruments designed to test radioactive gases, ESA’s negative ion detector and Italy’s Valle Bret radar system. These instruments will help scientists learn more about the moon’s structure and features a around us.

But the real highlight was the inclusion of Pakistan’s CubeSat satellite in this lunar expedition. China is keen to increase international cooperation in space exploration, and this project is an important step towards that goal.


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Chang’e 6 lands on the mysterious dark side of the moon. Where no samples have yet been collected. The mission will collect samples from the lunar surface and return them to Earth, which marks a historic first for lunar exploration.

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The main Goal is to investigate the age and composition of the Moon. Next, the Chang’e 7 mission will be sent to the moon’s south pole to search for signs of ice and study the lunar atmosphere and Climate. which it is Scheduled to complete a Mission with Chang’e 8 a series of species and possibly a Research station has been established in the moon.

It should be noted that China continues to develop its space capabilities and Chang’e 5 successfully returned a lunar sample to Earth in 2013,making China the third largest country in the US and after Russia