China propelled a significant Mars mission on Thursday in what it expectations will become its first successful landing on the Red Planet.

The mission, as Tianwen – 1 will see a wanderer, lander and orbiter propelled on board a Long March 5 rocket from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on Hainan Island on Thursday. It is China’s first solo mission Mars after a past attempt with Russia failed quite a long while prior.

The state-possessed China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation proclaimed the launch a triumph and said the Tianwen-1 wanderer had been successfully moved to the “predetermined orbit,” as per an official post on WeChat.

In the interim, the U.S. is gearing up for a launch of NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover which is planned for July 30.

China’s Tianwen-1 will show up at its destination seven months after launch. The orbiter will orbit Mars while the wanderer and lander will make a journey to the surface of the Red Planet.

Researchers from the world’s second-biggest economy want to map the geological structure of Mars, explore the characteristics of its soil and water-ice distribution, study the surface material composition and all the more comprehensively comprehend the environment on the planet, as indicated by the mission’s researcher.

The U.S. is the main other nation that has landed and worked a meanderer on Mars, so if China’s mission is successful, it would be a major accomplishment.

China has put a major accentuation on space in the course of the last few years. President Xi Jinping encouraged the industry not long ago to make China a “great space power as soon as possible,” according to state-backed China Daily.

Be that as it may, China has confronted a few setbacks in getting its Mars desire off the ground. In 2011, it endeavored to launch an orbiter called Yinghuo-1 on a Russian shuttle being propelled by a Ukrainian rocket. However, the launch eventually failed.

Furthermore, in 2017, the second launch of the Long March 5 rocket finished in failure.

However, China has likewise observed some ongoing victories. It was the first country to land a shuttle on the so-called dark side of the moon. Also, not long ago, China propelled the final satellite to finish its global navigation system called Beidou.

China’s Mars mission comes after the UAE effectively propelled its Mars probe, named Hope, not long ago and as the U.S. gears up for its own mission to the Red Planet.

The whirlwind of Mars launches has to do with timing. Around every 26 months, the Mars and Earth are nearer than usual, taking into account a launch.

The U.S. is scheduled to launch its Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover on July 30 with the aim of studying life on the planet. The wanderer will look for indications of tenable conditions on Mars in the antiquated past yet additionally signs of “past microbial life,” as per NASA.