Sentence examples for lunar programme from inspiring English sources
This will be the workhorse of China's lunar programme.
China has announced a lunar programme of its own.
Chang'e 4 is the latest giant leap in China's fast-moving and ambitious lunar programme.
On one level, its lunar programme is an expensive advertisement for economic prowess.
The original lunar programme grew out of the bipolar political world of the cold war.
In the 60s, the Soviet Union had started to design its own rival to the US Apollo lunar programme.
Very low frequency interferometry among two astronomical experiments has been proposed and accepted for further study for the second phase of China's lunar exploration programme (the Chang'E Programme), which is envisaged to operate a lander and a rover on the surface of the moon.
China would need experts from its lunar exploration programme and its separate human spaceflight programme to work together on a possible crewed lunar mission.
"The Chinese lunar space programme is hugely ambitious.
On 12 February, he proposed a 2019 budget that would allow the agency to begin planning a US$200-million lunar exploration programme.
In 2004, government officials announced an unmanned lunar exploration programme that would put satellites in lunar orbit, touch down on the surface and finally bring home up to two kilograms of rock samples before 2020.
