Chang'E 6- Sample Return |
Chang'E 6- Sample Return |
Aug 1 2023, 07:16 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10229 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-02038-1
Open access paper on the landing area. Note that it is not south polar, the thread title is incorrect. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Aug 2 2023, 06:35 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Agreed. Topic title changed.
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Apr 12 2024, 06:28 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10229 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Chang'e 6 is preceded by its relay satellite Queqiao 2 and two little companions, Tiandu-1 and Tiandu-2. The large Queqiao 2 is in a frozen highly elliptical orbit which spends much of its time high over the southern farside, where it will be able to relay data from Chang'e 4 and 6 as well as the polar landers CE-7 and 8. Its companions are in different orbits and are designed to test technologies for future relay systems.
Tiandu-2 took a far infrared image of part of the Moon and a distant Earth: (CNSA image, contrast stretched) The largest crater is Landau on the northern far side. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Apr 30 2024, 07:11 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 127 Joined: 3-September 12 From: Almeria, SE Spain Member No.: 6632 |
Cháng'é-6 launch next "early Friday, May 3"?
https://spacenews.com/china-ready-to-launch...return-mission/ Thorsten |
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Apr 30 2024, 12:37 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1452 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
The Planetary Society has a good article on the mission, including an interesting tidbit I wasn't aware of until now:https://www.planetary.org/articles/change-6...-what-to-expect
QUOTE Finally, a student-built Pakistani CubeSat named ICUBE-Q will separate from Chang’e-6 into lunar orbit and take images of the orbiter, the Moon, and the Earth. It will also measure the Moon’s magnetic field. The landing site experiences sunset on May 12/13. So we'll see this landing occurring in the evening rather than the morning.
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May 3 2024, 01:00 PM
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May 3 2024, 06:37 PM
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Chang'e 6 carries a rover! The rover has an infrared imaging spectrometer. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/P7yuVn34KsJeEE3AAdxHUQ
https://twitter.com/CNSAWatcher/status/1786450700651626587 -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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May 4 2024, 12:28 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1452 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
The landing site experiences sunset on May 12/13. So we'll see this landing occurring in the evening rather than the morning. SegerYu says the landing won't be this month. So I was likely incorrect.
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May 4 2024, 04:20 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 559 Joined: 1-May 06 From: Scotland (Ecosse, Escocia) Member No.: 759 |
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May 6 2024, 08:12 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 559 Joined: 1-May 06 From: Scotland (Ecosse, Escocia) Member No.: 759 |
Scott Tilley on Twitter/X is reporting continued tracking of Chang'e 6 on 4th day of its outward leg to the Moon.
Expecting arrival into lunar orbit around 03:00 UTC on May 8th. |
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May 7 2024, 08:34 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 559 Joined: 1-May 06 From: Scotland (Ecosse, Escocia) Member No.: 759 |
Mission timeline on Weibo:
Arrival at the moon on May 8, Lander separates on June 1, Samples collected on June 2, Ascent to lunar orbit on June 4, Docking with orbiter on June 6, Return to Earth on June 25. Thanks to CNSA Watcher on X/Twitter. Source: https://m.weibo.cn/status/OdeLu1Mwe |
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May 8 2024, 03:49 AM
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May 8 2024, 07:39 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1452 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
Pakistan's ICUBE-Q has been deployed at the apogee of the initial high lunar orbit.
https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1186687-p...ployed-in-orbit -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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May 10 2024, 05:36 PM
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May 26 2024, 10:48 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 968 Joined: 15-June 09 From: Lisbon, Portugal Member No.: 4824 |
I hope this is the right thread...
The paper titled "Landing site of the Chang'e-6 lunar farside sample return mission from the Apollo basin" includes enough information and images to allow creating a KML file for Google Moon (in Google Earth). Full credit to the authors is included in the KML file and is displayed by clicking the underlined "Chang'e 6 Landing Site" title. The included base image has better resolution than the underlying Google imagery. Unfortunately it proved impossible (to me) to perfectly match the image to the Google imagery. Nevertheless, I think it is worth it and hope it may be of some use, now that the landing is approaching. Just as with the the Curiosity KML file, download the file below to your favorite place and double click it. This should invoke Google Earth, and a message prompting to allow to change to the Moon should appear. All comments are welcome, especially if you run into any problems! Chang__e_6_Landing_Site_2024MAY26.kmz ( 2.92MB ) Number of downloads: 78 Fernando |
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