Chang'e 3 prelaunch through lunar orbit insertion, Lander instruments, capability, development, testing, launch |
Chang'e 3 prelaunch through lunar orbit insertion, Lander instruments, capability, development, testing, launch |
Mar 3 2009, 06:27 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 236 Joined: 5-June 08 From: Udon Thani Member No.: 4185 |
According to moondaily.com China plans a (unmanned) moonlanding for 2013.
The article contains an image of a sample-return probe taking off from the moon which indeed looks a lot like a (Soviet) Y8E derived vehicle. If this is true, my earlier remark here that this landingsite might be selected for its option to fly a direct ascent trajectory back to earth seems to make sense, they might indeed be planning to attempt a sample-return mission with a moonlanding in the vicinity of the present crash-site. Regards, Geert. |
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Nov 2 2013, 03:40 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 109 Joined: 25-November 04 From: Dublin, Ireland Member No.: 113 |
I draped the annotated map from today's Youtube video over Google Moon (1) and had an interesting, if highly speculative, result when I zoomed in to the right-hand character on the CCTV map and compared it with the CCTV close-up scene(2).
1: 2: Can anyone translate the two single-character labels within Sinus Iridum? Even better, is there anyone who can give a summary translation of relevant parts of the video? The kmg file is here: http://j.mp/CCTV_Map |
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