IAF World Space Award – The Chang’e 4 Mission

Day: Monday 12 October
Time: 17:30-18:00 CEST

The IAF World Space Award Highlight Lecture will feature Dr. Yu Dengyun, the Deputy Designer-in-Chief of China's Lunar Exploration Program and one of the Chang’e 4 Mission Leaders. Dr. Yu Dengyun will talk about the successful Chang’e-4 mission and their achievement to soft land on the far side of the moon for the first time in history of humankind and successfully sustain relay communication between the far side of the moon and the Earth.

Introduction

Pascale EHRENFREUND

President, President of Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)

France

Speaker

Dengyun YU

Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Committee, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation

China