Moon landing 2013 (Chang'e 3)

[czokletmuss]

Either way, bring on the "wow nasa hiding moon's real color china giving us the truth, moon is orange wake up sheeple" nutjobs.

Oh crap, you are right. I guess it's their happy day..

[Drunken Hobo]

23 pages... anyone any idea yet how to pronounce the damaned thing?

[Lohan2008]

orange tint: it could be that there was not enough power (on lander) to send a clear signal.

or cameras used false colour to detect shadows.

Edited December 14, 2013 by Lohan2008

[czokletmuss]

23 pages... anyone any idea yet how to pronounce the damaned thing?

In English? I guess like "ch-on-gue"; in Polish it can be write down as "dżą-gę" more or less. Is there anyone here from China?

[nhnifong]

Cesrate​​​​​

[Lohan2008]

Solar panels deployed !

http://english.cntv.cn/program/newsupdate/20131214/104460.shtml

[czokletmuss]

"- (..)is designed for one-year lifespan

- Because the solar panels will run out?"

I smiled

[iDan122]

Bothers me how so many people are indifferent about the Chinese landing on the Moon uhhh.

Anyway China did a good job, they'll be colonizing Mars by 2030 definitely. Theyre supposed to start building an Mir sized space station in 2016

[tetryds]

Probe "Made in China"... a few years ago no one would ever take this seriously.

Good job, they will probably send someone to the moon soon.

[Lohan2008]

Probe "Made in China"... a few years ago no one would ever take this seriously.

Good job, they will probably send someone to the moon soon.

Will not be till 2020, as the Chinese want to build a space station first > 2016.

Edited December 14, 2013 by Lohan2008

[czokletmuss]

I'm so glad that we returned to the Moon after all these years. I hope that there will be even more Chinese activities in space in the near future, even going beyond Tiangong.

[Kerbal01]

Congrats china! You've finally done something the USA and USSR did in the 50's-70's!

[tetryds]

Congrats china! You've finally done something the USA and USSR did in the 50's-70's!

Only 10x cheaper, 10x faster... from scratch.

[Lohan2008]

Only 10x cheaper, 10x faster... from scratch.

[deadshot462]

This is it, live deployment of the rover on the moon!

http://english.cntv.cn/live/p2p/index.shtml

Edit:

It rolled to the surface!

Edited December 14, 2013 by deadshot462

[Nibb31]

Congrats china! You've finally done something the USA and USSR did in the 50's-70's!

I don't remember the USA operating any rovers on the Moon. The Surveyor probes were pretty rudimentary (which is quite normal, as they were developed as cheap demonstrators for the Apollo program rather than proper probes.)

Also, both the Luna and Surveyor programs had lots of failures. 2 out of 7 Surveyor's crashed and only a handful of the more ambitious Luna landers actually landed.

So yeah, China has achieved quite a feat by successfully landing on their first attempt, and they get bonus points for the rover.

[czokletmuss]

Yutu is on the surface!

Congrats china! You've finally done something the USA and USSR did in the 50's-70's!

Well, at least they don't have to buy seats on Soyuz to actually get to space

[Lohan2008]

Designed to last 3 months ?

[czokletmuss]

Huh, the reporter mentiond Chang'e 5 scheduled to launch in 2018 to bring samples from the Moon. I hope they will suceed with this as well!

[astropapi1]

Well, at least they don't have to buy seats on Soyuz to actually get to space

Feel the buuuuurn!

[deadshot462]

Found this nice GIF of the rover deployment:

Original source: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/12141328-six-wheels-on-soil-for-yutu.html

Congrats China, so far looks like everything went well with this mission.

[tetryds]

Designed to last 3 months ?

That means: "Expected and invested into to last at least 3 months flawlessly, it will likely last more, but any extra time is taken as a bonus".

[czokletmuss]

Amazing I guess I know what I'm going to build next in KSP. BTW is there a Chang'e 3 challenge already?

[Spartwo]

Meanwhile Nasa is struggling to stay funded.

[czokletmuss]

Meanwhile Nasa is struggling to stay funded.

They are funded all right, they are just wasting money on bad ideas like SLS or Orion. But this is completely off-topic, let's talk about Change'3