我国获取的月球虹湾地区三维影像 3d image of lunar bay of rainbow region obtained by our country
虹湾 bay of rainbow
拉普拉斯海角 cape laplace

Fan work by pockn@9ifly:

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

You mean the vote? Yes, everyone.

Lunar rover naming contest phase 1 of 4 completed. The top 10 candidates are:

* Yutu (Jade Rabbit)
* Tansuo (Explorer/Exploring)
* Lanyue ("Pull the Moon into one's arm")
* Qianxuesen (aka Tsien Hsue-shen)
* Zhuimeng (Chasing Dream)
* Xunmeng (Seeking Dream)
* Zhuiyue (Chasing the Moon)
* Mengxiang (Dream)
* Shiming (Mission)
* Qianjin (Forward)

Phase 2 will choose three names from these ten. Vote at http://www.xinhuanet.com/forum/zt2013/yqctp/index.htm until October 31.

Today is a BIG day. Today is the day when New Horizons will be exactly ONE BILLION KILOMETERS away from 134340 Pluto. The historic moment will be occurred on March 28 at 15:58:18 UTC (SCET w/o LT correction), when New Horizons's range rate relative to 134340 at -13.889 km/s, and relative to the Earth at -14.717 km/s. Yes, the probe is running toward both 134340 and the Earth right now.

The article only gives the first use of the new ion engine in 2015. It is unknown whether the 2015 mission is the asteroid mission.

I have the full text of the paper you quoted which dated July 2011. But I think Ouyang Ziyuan's presentation matches the latest report better. It is also known that a meeting was held in May 2012 on the design of the asteroid mission. Based on all these info, I think we could have an estimated launch time between 2015 and 2017, a flyby of 12711 Tukmit in August 2018, and 99942 Apophis orbit insertion in April 2020, Apophis departure in September 2020, orbit and landing on 1996 FG3 August–December 2023.

2018 Mars mission

http://www.nrscc.gov.cn/nrscc/kjcg/kjcsjs/...0331_30356.html

Objectives:

Orbiter
• Probing the Martian surface topography and geomorphology
• Probing the Martian physical and atmospheric environment
• Imaging the Martian surface mineral material distributions

Lander
• Probing the landing area topography and geomorphology
• Probing the suprastructure and underground water ice
• Martian surface chemical composition in situ analysis
• Martian surface climate monitoring and scientific research

Mars probe:


Deep space navigation optical sensor:


High-precision dynamic celestial body simulator:


Deep-space autonomous navigation experimental verification system:


Digital small-scale deep-space responder:



Lightweight high-gain directional antenna:

http://wb.lzbs.com.cn/html/2012-12/27/content_420157.htm

China's first dedicated asteroid mission will be powered by xenon ion engine. The engine has successfully tested in orbit on Shijian-9 satellite on November 7, 2012. The probe will visit three asteroids: make a flyby of the first and take pictures, orbit the second, and land on the third. According to earlier reports, potential targets include 12711 Tukmit, 99942 Apophis and (175706) 1996 FG3.

More info: 20 Kbps at 7 million km, 90% data has been received so far.

This is a television screenshot of a close-up image at 5 m/pixel, captured at 08:30:05, 47 km away. (Hope to have raw image soon)

Video: http://news.cntv.cn/china/20121215/100850.shtml

Relative speed at 10.73 km/s
Closest flyby at 3.2 km altitude

Sequence (local time):
• Dec13 15:25 Return solar panels to 180 degrees
• Dec13 15:30 Switch to inertial attitude control
• Dec13 15:45 Switch to star orientation 10
• Dec13 15:48 Switch to star orientation 2
• Dec13 16:20 Solar panel monitoring camera power up
• Dec13 16:30 Closest flyby
• Dec13 16:45 Solar panel monitoring camera power down

Attached image: captured at 93–240 km distance between 16:30:09–16:30:24, maximum resolution 10 meters/pixel

Massive radio telescope to assist China’s moon missions: http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/740942.shtml

Chang'e 5 atmospheric re-entry and parachute ejection system tested.

Here is the full video of the presentation by Ouyang Ziyuan:

http://www.cas.cn/zt/hyzt/16thysdh/zb/fdsp...4_3598219.shtml

From 9ifly forums: http://www.9ifly.cn/thread-364-5-2.html

The first few pictures were originally posted as a travelogue by ticker@newsmth (a team member): http://www.newsmth.net/bbsbfind.php?q=1&am...cks&dt=1000

Chang'e 3 lunar rover, due to launch in 2013.

Lunar Rover Test in the Kumtag Desert, Gansu Province

Recently released lunar global map, in JP2 format (1.4 GB compressed): ftp://DataRelease:1q2w124@159.226.88.39/C...obal-50m-sc.rar

You can also find some other Chang'e 2 stuffs on this FTP server.

An online viewer: http://159.226.88.30:8080/CE2release/cesMain.jsp



Left: Google Moon; Right: Chang'e 2

This is a guideline how you can apply for these datasets: http://www.clep.org.cn/index.asp?modelname...000&recno=6 (in Chinese)

Normal users can only download "processed data products" (level-3 datasets) by sign up at http://159.226.88.59:7779/CE1OutWeb/ . For those have cooperation with the program, they can apply for raw datasets (level 0,1,2).

Chang'e 2 may depart lunar orbit on June 16 for L2.

Reference: http://news.xinmin.cn/rollnews/2011/05/17/10777705.html (in Chinese)

New Horizons is now no more than 2.1 trillion meters away from 134340 Pluto

Date and Time: 2010-10-06 23:19:53 Orbiter UTC
Range: 2,100,000,000,000 meters
Range-rate: -14406 meters per second
Velocity: 14406 meters per second

The 490-Newton thrust main engine started at 03:05:59 UTC, burned for 1942 seconds. Chang'e 2 is now in lunar orbit at an altitude of 100 km.

As an enthusiast from China, NASA and the United States have disappointed me a lot. From the cancelled Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter and Mars Telecommunication Orbiter, to the delayed Mars Science Laboratory and the dying Constellation Program... I have almost lost the confidence and patient.

But based on reports from various sources, I think China is serious this time. There will be a Mars Pathfinder-like small lunar rover in 2013, and a sample return mission in 2017. It is just amazing, even by NASA/JPL's standard.

And China so far has a good record to get things done on time.

TCM-2 and TCM-3 canceled. LOI is expected in 1.5 hours.

Chang'e 2 will be launched at 10:59:57 UTC, tomorrow.

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang'e_2

Pictures: http://slide.news.sina.com.cn/c/slide_1_15699_13288.html