BEIJING, June 9 (Xinhua) -- China's second moon orbiter Chang'e-2 on Thursday set off from its moon orbit for outer space about 1.5 million km away from the earth, Chinese scientists said Thursday.
The orbiter left its moon orbit at 5:10 p.m. and it will take about 85 days for the orbiter to reach outer space, according to the State Administration of Science,Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND).
The orbiter had finished all its tasks within its designed life span of six months by April 1.
Scientists decided to let it carry out additional exploratory tasks as the orbiter still had fuel in reserve.
Traveling into outer space from the moon's orbit is the most important task among five additional ones, according to the SASTIND.
"It's the first time in the world for a satellite to be set off from the moon in remote outer space," said Zhou Jianliang, deputy chief engineer of the Chang'e-2 measure and control system of the Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC).
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