The Chinese government announced on Sunday about its latest space programme. Later this year, it is going to launch its first recoverable moon orbiter, which will travel to the moon before coming back to earth, affirmed the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND).

One of the main aims of China is to test a technology through orbiter, which it will use for Chang'e-5 mission. The mission aims to collect samples from the moon's surface. As per Chinese mythology, Chang'e is the goddess of the moon who resides in a palace with her pet Yutu.

One of the pre-requisites for the success of the orbiter is that it shall withstand the high temperature when it re-enters the earth's atmosphere. Beijing is having great hopes from the space-programme as it consider it as an indicator of China's increasing confidence, mounting technical expertise and efforts being made by the ruling Communist Party to expand space industry of the nation.

SASTIND shared that the moon orbiter has been transferred to the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in the southwestern province of Sichuan. Experts shared that Chang'e-5 mission will be technical advanced.

It is even being said that China has plans to set a permanent orbiting state on the moon by 2020 and then send humans there. Ye Peijian, senior advisor of the China Academy of Space Technology, shared about the new project: "Firstly, it requires an initial velocity from the carrier, and secondly, it can be accelerated by the spacecraft's own fuel. There are many other ways to do it as well, such as taking advantage of the gravity of other planets".