How do they get data back? Do they have a satellite orbiting the moon to act as a relay?
My question too ... just how can one communicate with objects our of range ?
Unless of of course this is all a fantasy and propaganda.
From the article... Quite a complex undertaking.
“Chang’e-6 touched down within an impact crater known as the Apollo Basin, located within the sprawling, roughly 2,500-kilometer-diameter South Pole-Aitken Basin, according to Chinese state media Xinhua. It had orbited the moon for about 20 days as part of a larger probe, which is composed of four parts: an orbiter, a lander, an ascender and a re-entry module.
It is now expected to use a drill and a mechanical arm to gather up to 2 kilograms of moon dust and rocks from the basin, a crater formed some 4 billion years ago.
The probe will spend two days on the far side of the moon, and 14 hours to collect moon soil samples, Xinhua reported.
To complete its mission, the lander will need to robotically stow those samples in an ascent vehicle that made the landing with it.
The ascent vehicle will then return to lunar orbit, where it will dock with and transfer the samples to a re-entry capsule, according to mission information provided by the China National Space Administration.
The re-entry capsule and orbiter will then travel back to Earth’s orbit and separate, allowing the re-entry capsule to make its expected return later this month to the Siziwang Banner Landing Site in China’s rural Inner Mongolia region.
The technically complex mission is made more challenging due to where it is being conducted. The far side of the moon is out of range of normal communications, which means Chang’e-6 must also rely on a satellite that was launched into lunar orbit in March, the Queqiao-2.”
Meanwhile we can’t build a simple floating pier.