in early January 2015 the service module will leave the Earth-Moon L2 point of flying to the moon; the middle of recent months, brake, forming lunar orbit; February, March each conduct a lunar orbit rendezvous and docking Remote Pilot test; April-to-Moon imaging, shooting preset sampling landing zone topography.
From Xinhua, Chinese spacecraft to return to moon's orbit.
Anything known about what (or if there) will be Cháng'é-4?Thorsten
CE-5-T1 has entered lunar orbit yesterday at around 19:00 UTC - initial orbit is 200 x 5300 km with period of 8 hours. It will make 2 more burns over the next 2 days to lower its orbit to a 200 km circular one with period of 127 minutes.
I don't think it has the delta-V to crash into the Sun.
From Xinhua, Service module of China's lunar orbiter enters 127-minute orbit.
The service module of China's unmanned test lunar orbiter has finished tests of orbiting technologies needed in a future sampling mission on the Moon.
Such technologies will possibly be used in the country's next lunar probe mission, Chang'e-5.
http://www.china.org.cn/china/2015-02/08/content_34765936.htmQuoteThe service module of China's unmanned test lunar orbiter has finished tests of orbiting technologies needed in a future sampling mission on the Moon.so what's next for CE-5-T1?also note:QuoteSuch technologies will possibly be used in the country's next lunar probe mission, Chang'e-5.