Payload 14 kg, 3rd stage of rocket to which payload was permanently attached 21,000 kg,[1] Nominal total=21,014 kg
Dry mass
14 kg (31 lb)
Dimensions
61 cm × 26 cm × 10 cm (2.00 ft × 0.85 ft × 0.33 ft)
Power
4.5 W
Start of mission
Launch date
23 October 2014, 18:00:04 (2014-10-23UTC18:00:04) UTC[2]
Rocket
Long March 3C/G2
Launch site
Xichang LC-2
End of mission
Disposal
Crashed
Destroyed
4 March 2022
Orbital parameters
Reference system
Geocentric
Regime
Highly Elliptical
Perigee altitude
1,282 kilometers (797 mi)
Apogee altitude
404,724 kilometers (251,484 mi)
Inclination
30.4°
Period
10.93 days
Flyby of Moon
Closest approach
28 October 2014[3]
Distance
13,000 km (8,100 mi)
Manfred Memorial Moon Mission (4M) was the first private lunar probe to successfully fly by the Moon. It was led by LuxSpace, a child company of German OHB System, and named in honor of OHB Systems founder, Manfred Fuchs, who died in 2014. It was launched with the Chinese Chang'e 5-T1 test spacecraft on 23 October 2014.[4][5] The lunar flyby took place on 28 October 2014, after which the spacecraft entered elliptical Earth orbit and continued transmission until 11 November 2014, exceeding its designed lifetime by four times.[3][6][7]
The spacecraft, along with the rocket stage to which it was attached, likely made impact with the surface of the Moon after its orbit decayed, on 4 March 2022.[8] This made Luxembourg the eighth country to reach the surface of the Moon.
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^"Saft lithium batteries powered the 4M mini-probe to success on the world's first privately funded Moon mission" (Press release). Paris: Saft. 21 January 2015. Archived from the original on 24 July 2015. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
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