Chang'e 5-T1 Mission Update Thread-(23/10/14)

[xenomorph555]

First 4M telemetry recieved, all is good

[Frida Space]

Beautiful pic from today's launch

[xenomorph555]

Well this has been a great start, we'll see what happens at the 4th day flyby and 8th day landing.

Now the real mission begins...

[Sky_walker]

For those who didn't see it: First Private Moon Mission to Launch on Chinese Rocket Today (today being the launch day).

Luxembourg won the race with Americans.

[xenomorph555]

YAY we have some launch videos, although they are rather short, just a bit longer then the average satellite launch videos the chinese news network posts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfIBUlflRM0

[xenomorph555]

and heres an even better video:

[xenomorph555]

First course correction burn took place at 08:29 UTC, another step of the journey done

[xenomorph555]

The probe has entered the moons sphere of influence

[Streetwind]

Has there been an official date set for the reentry?

[Kryten]

Technically no, but it's about 22:00 on the 31^st based on public radar data.

[xenomorph555]

The probe got to the lunar flyby safely, it is now making preps for the return trip.

[xenomorph555]

The probe also took some great shots:

Epic flyby:

The far side, (super epic photo):

Our world:

[lajoswinkler]

High resolution photos:

[astropapi1]

Lunar fly-by? Wasn't this mission an exact replica of the previous one (landing a rover on the Moon)?

Awwww.

[Nibb31]

It's a replica of the Russian Zond missions to test the reentry capsule from lunar orbit. The capsule is the same that will be used for the sample return mission, a subscale Shenzhou descent module.

[Kryten]

Capsule has separated from the bus, reentry should be within the next hour.

[NovaSilisko]

Hoping for some good space-related news today. Fingers crossed.

[Kryten]

'China's returning lunar orbiter shoots out the parachute to land on earth'-Xinhua twitter

Not sure if this is really confirmed, or they're just putting updates out at the predicted times.

[NovaSilisko]

'China's returning lunar orbiter shoots out the parachute to land on earth'-Xinhua twitter

Not sure if this is really confirmed, or they're just putting updates out at the predicted times.

Supposedly they've found the capsule and are swarming it with helicopters right now. Hopefully we get some pictures soon.

[liweih]

Base on the news from xinhua net and some other media, the capsule has landed and be founded.

Edited November 1, 2014 by liweih

[Kryten]

[NovaSilisko]

It's adorable!

[astropapi1]

Awwww, it's like a mini soyuz! Wouldn't be surprised to see a Kerbal hop out of it.

[xenomorph555]

AH YEAH! Awesome!

But is that a... glass porthole in it....

[Nicholander]

That's cutest IRL spacecraft I've ever seen. Awww...