China launches Shenzhou X manned spacecraft with three astronauts.
The launch of lunar probe Chang'e-3 would bring China closer to putting an astronaut on the moon and using Earth's closest neighbor for space exploration.
China's upcoming launch of Chang'e-3 lunar probe is "fantastic" and its space program "impressive", a US space expert said.
China will launch the Chang'e 3 lunar probe at 1:30 am on Monday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Southwest China's Sichuan province.
The launch of China's Chang'e-3 lunar probe, scheduled in early December, will have to target multiple narrow windows that last only minutes each, said a spokesman for the project Friday.
Multiple "secret weapons" will be used on China's Chang'e-3 lunar probe, scheduled to launch at the end of this year for a moon landing mission, a key scientist said.
A Long March-3B carrier rocket is being transported towards the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China, after left Beijing Sunday morning, to prepare for the upcoming launch of Chang'e-3 moon probe.
Lunar probe Chang'e-2 is more than 60 million kilometers away from Earth and has become China's first man-made asteroid, a spokesperson said Tuesday.
China's first moon rover, to be launched in early December, is named "Yutu", or "jade rabbit" in Chinese, Li Benzheng, deputy commander-in-chief of the country's lunar exploration program, announced Tuesday morning.
China will launch a lunar probe, Chang'e-3 in early December, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense announced Tuesday morning in Beijing.
China successfully launched the Experiment-5 satellite into a preset orbit with the Long March-2D carrier rocket at 10:12 am Monday at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
China on Wednesday sent a remote-sensing satellite into scheduled orbit, according to the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center.
The reentry module of China's Shenzhou-X spacecraft was handed over to its designers in Beijing on Thursday for further study.