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.article-lead-container, .article-author-container, .article-body-image, .article-body .article-body-container > * > p, .article-body .article-body-container > em, .article-body .article-body-container > h2, .article-body .article-body-container > h3, .article-body .article-body-container > h4, .article-body .article-body-container > h5, .article-body .article-body-container > h6, .article-body .article-body-container > hr, .article-body .article-body-container > p, .article-body .article-body-container > ul, .article-body .header-container, .article-feature-part, .details-first-row .article-lead, .details-first-row .article-share-container,.find-similar-tags{width:100%}}</style> <div class="article-body-container"> <p>China will invite international partners to place a small payload on a planned lunar sample return mission, the head of the country’s space agency said Monday.</p> <p>Zhang Kejian, head of the China National Space Administration (CNSA), said CNSA’s Chang’e-6 lunar sample return spacecraft would open 10 kilograms of payload capacity to international partners which would allow for a small experiment to join the mission.</p> <p>Zhang made the announcement at the Heads of Agencies plenary session at the the 69<sup>th</sup> International Astronautical Congress (IAC) which opened on Monday in Bremen, Germany.</p> <p>Chang’e-6 is a backup mission to <a href="https://web-archive-org.translate.goog/web/20191217061438/https://gbtimes.com/chinas-change-5-lunar-sample-return-mission-to-launch-in-2019?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB">Chang’e-5</a>, which China plans to launch in 2019 to collect 2 kilograms of samples from a<a href="https://web-archive-org.translate.goog/web/20191217061438/http://www.planetary.org/explore/the-planetary-report/china-new-lunar-missions.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB"> site near Mons Rümker</a> in Oceanus Procellarum in the northwest region of the nearside of the Moon.</p> <p data-moving="false">If Chang’e-5 is successful, Chang’e-6 could target the lunar south poles or the lunar far side, using a relay satellite launched earlier this year to facilitate a first-ever mission to land on the far side of the Moon, Chang’e-4, set to launch in <a href="https://web-archive-org.translate.goog/web/20191217061438/https://gbtimes.com/change-4-far-side-of-the-moon-lander-and-rover-mission-to-launch-in-december?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB">December</a>.</p> <div class="body-image-container article-body-image all-directions"> <img title="Scientists working on China's Chang'e-5 reentry vehicle, right, with lander and ascent vehicles in the background." src="https://web.archive.org/web/20191217061438im_/https://static.gbtimes.com/uploads/old/2017/03/01/change5-progress-jan2-cctv-3.png" alt="Scientists working on China's Chang'e-5 reentry vehicle, right, with lander and ascent vehicles in the background." width="100%"> <p></p> <div class="body-image-desc-wrapper"> <div 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