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"天问一号"第2次轨道修正
日期:2020-09-25

Mars probe makes course correction
“天问一号”第2次轨道修正

China's Tianwen 1 Mars probe carried out its second midcourse correction maneuver on Sunday night, according to the China National Space Administration.
据国家航天局消息,9月20日晚,我国的“天问一号”火星探测器完成第二次轨道中途修正。

The robotic spacecraft ran its four 120-Newton thrusters for 20 seconds at around 11 pm after receiving control signals from its ground controllers, the administration said in a statement on Monday morning.
国家航天局9月21日上午发布声明称,9月20日晚11时许,在收到地面控制团队的控制信号后,“天问一号”探测器四台120N发动机同时点火,工作20秒,完成了轨道修正任务。

By Monday morning, Tianwen 1 had traveled 160 million kilometers in an Earth-Mars transfer trajectory toward the red planet and was nearly 19 million km from Earth, it added.
截至9月21日上午,“天问一号”探测器已经在地火转移轨道上飞行了1.6亿公里,距离地球约1900万公里,仍在继续飞向火星。

China launched Tianwen 1, the country's first independent Mars mission, on July 23 at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province, opening the nation's planetary exploration program.
7月23日,我国首次独立火星探测任务“天问一号”探测器在海南省的文昌卫星发射中心成功发射,开启了我国行星探测任务的序幕。