BEIJING (Bloomberg): The rivalry between Asia’s two biggest countries has extended into outer space.After India’s landing of its Chandrayaan-3 rover on the moon last month - becoming the first country to put a spacecraft near the lunar south pole and breaking China’s record for the southernmost lunar landing - a top Chinese scientist has said claims about the accomplishment are overstated.
Ouyang Ziyuan, lauded as the father of China’s lunar exploration programme, told the Chinese-language Science Times newspaper that the Chandrayaan-3 landing site, at 69 degrees south latitude, was nowhere close to the pole, defined as between 88.5 and 90 degrees.
After the Chandrayaan-3 landing, the Communist Party’s Global Times quoted Pang Zhihao, a Beijing-based senior space expert, as saying that China had much better technology. China’s Chang’e 4, the first to land on the far side of the moon in 2019, touched down 45 degrees south. An uncrewed NASA probe, Surveyor 7, reached the moon at about 41 degrees south in 1968.
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