China lands Jade Rabbit robot rover on Moon

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25356603

by swatkat • 13 years ago

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swatkat4• 13 years ago

CCTV live stream begins at 11:00 UTC. Landing scheduled for around 13:40 UTC, 14th Dec.

yapcguy2• 13 years ago

Do you have a link to a live stream?

swatkat4• 13 years ago

Not yet. Looks like 4 more hours to go for live stream to begin. I'm following this thread for updates:

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=33511.0

Edit:

Live stream will be at: http://english.cntv.cn/live/

Planetary Society blog: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/1213091...

dingaling2• 13 years ago

CCTV have just ( as of 11:30 UTC ) announced live coverage from 20:00 to 22:00 Beijing Time.

edta• 13 years ago

link to a live stream:

http://news.cntv.cn/special/videolive/change3/index.shtml

dingaling2• 13 years ago

That's a couple of hours than they originally scheduled. I wonder what caused the change?

The surveillance baseline only has a length of eight hours or so, so they don't have much leeway in actual landing window if they need the touch-down to be visible.

Here's a compilation of latest news ( from yesterday )

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/1213091...

jotm• 13 years ago

Well, let's hope they succeed!

yapcguy2• 13 years ago

Yep.

Hope people can put politics aside and appreciate another step forward for humanity and science.

Good luck to all involved!

wavesounds• 13 years ago

I think another space race would be a good thing actually.

In fact I think it's how we should solve all our international disputes: First country to put a man on mars gets the South China Sea.

mapt• 13 years ago

Put politics aside?

Nationalism is all we've got to push forward space exploration; While there were initially subtexts involving spy satellites and nuclear weapons, the tech has been there for forty years, and forty years ago we stopped making progress and settled into a holding pattern involving the Shuttle and a modest space station in some sort of 'spirit of cooperation' that is earmark- rather than goal-oriented.

I can only hope China's national inferiority complex is intense enough to propel human beings beyond low earth orbit once more, and shame us out of our hyperpower exceptionalism. Yes, shame - Russia can send someone to the ISS and the US cannot - and without the US feeling ashamed of that, there is no Dragon, no Dream Chaser, no Orion.

Without a political space race, there's no resources for this sort of thing except for the passing billionaire.

sreejithr• 13 years ago

Good to see someone heating up the space race again. Hope to see awesome retaliations from other agencies.

swatkat4• 13 years ago

Live coverage started.

Video: http://english.cntv.cn/live/

Text: http://live.china.org.cn/2013/12/13/coming-soon-change-3-lan...

aw3c2• 13 years ago

Direct streaming via mms://wmv3.china.com.cn/live2?cccode=cc1291 (lags a lot for me)

swatkat4• 13 years ago

Landing success. Congrats to China. Rover will be deployed from lander few hours (8 hrs?) later.

Landing video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnM-sJ-KbNg

gokhan• 13 years ago

Congrats to China. It was really exciting to see it live.

clayrichardson• 13 years ago

I can't wait until we have realtime streaming video feeds from other vehicles documenting other landings in progress.

Edit: Spelling and words.

outworlder• 13 years ago

We are getting there, seen as how MRO managed to snap a picture of Curiosity's descent.

Or how NASA tried to work with India (Chandrayaan-1 and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) to perform a bistatic radar experiment. I find the idea of two entirely diferent crafts operated by two countries and working together to be fascinating.

China lands Jade Rabbit robot rover on Moon

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