Surface Sampling and Packing System
PolyU’s space instruments contribute to China’s first lunar sample return mission
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s (PolyU) research excellence contributed to China’s Chang’e 5 mission, which successfully collected lunar samples from the Moon and brought them back to Earth for the first time in the Nation’s history.
Chang’e 5 was not only China’s first undertaking to acquire rocks and soil from the Moon’s surface, but it was also the world's first attempt to do so for more than 40 years since the last lunar mission occurred in 1976.
