Science and Exploration

Smallsat View Of Tianwen-1 On Its Way To Mars

By Keith Cowing
Press Release
October 1, 2020
Filed under , ,
Smallsat View Of Tianwen-1 On Its Way To Mars
Tianwen-1 On Its Way To Mars
CNSA

Andrew Jones @AJ_FI – Here’s an image of Tianwen-1 in deep space and on its way to Mars, released today [CLEP]. The spacecraft is currently 24.1 million km from the Earth with a total flight distance of 188 million km. Source
Smallsat ejection (took the photo of Tianwen-1)

https://media2.spaceref.com/news/2020/640.gif

SpaceRef co-founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.