Chang'e 8
Long March 5, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
101, Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China
Launch time
No earlier than
NET 2029
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Launch record updated by LL2
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Chang'e 8 on Long March 5. NET 2029. Status: TBD. Launch site: 101. Source: Launch Library 2.
Chang'e 8/CE-8 is scheduled to launch in 2028, including a lander, a rover and a legged robot. The mission will land in the South Pole regions of the Moon to study lunar surface environment around the South Pole and experimenting with resource utilization, including testing an enclosed terrestrial ecosystem in the lunar environment.
- Mission type
- Planetary Science
- Orbit
- Lunar Orbit
Launch context
Generated from source records
Chang'e 8: Long March 5, operated by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. Pad: 101, Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China. Mission type: Planetary Science; target orbit: Lunar Orbit. Listed timing: NET 2029. TBD means this is a provisional date. Provider: 121 orbital attempts in our records since 6 Jan 2025, including 52 in 2026 (UTC). Vehicle: 3/3 resolved orbital outcomes succeeded (100%) in our records since 23 Oct 2025. Pad: 5 orbital attempts in our records since 28 Apr 2025.
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What these records cover
Partial coverage of stored records, not lifetime or worldwide totals. Counts use known orbital attempts with a source date at or before this snapshot and a status confirming liftoff or an outcome. Scheduled, upstream-missing, suborbital and unknown-orbit records are excluded. Source dates are NET estimates, not verified actual liftoff times.
The vehicle percentage is Success / (Success + Failure + Partial Failure). In Flight and Payload Deployed count as attempts but are excluded from that denominator. Figures describe the stored record at this snapshot, not the vehicle's flight number or a prediction of this launch's outcome.
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Slip history
Changes recorded by Space Right Now
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Source updates from Launch Library 2 (2)
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- LL2 update
NET 2029.
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Launch pad
101
Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China (CN)
Coordinates: 19.614334, 110.951011
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