Quote from: MATTBLAK on 02/09/2014 10:35 amQuote from: Star One on 02/06/2014 12:54 pmSir Patrick Stewart dresses up as China's dying lunar rover, bids farewell to humanity.http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/5/5384412/sir-patrick-stewart-dresses-up-as-chinas-dying-lunar-rover-bidsYeah, but I found Jon Stewart's gurning and try-hard manner too painful to watch. Even he can be funnier than that...Agreed... I really hate this whole "lol china sucks they only did something we did 40 years ago" thing.
Quote from: Star One on 02/06/2014 12:54 pmSir Patrick Stewart dresses up as China's dying lunar rover, bids farewell to humanity.http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/5/5384412/sir-patrick-stewart-dresses-up-as-chinas-dying-lunar-rover-bidsYeah, but I found Jon Stewart's gurning and try-hard manner too painful to watch. Even he can be funnier than that...
Sir Patrick Stewart dresses up as China's dying lunar rover, bids farewell to humanity.http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/5/5384412/sir-patrick-stewart-dresses-up-as-chinas-dying-lunar-rover-bids
And of course the US has never had a robotic lunar rover.
A nice signal from the Chang'e'3 lander after its 'sleep'
uplink TX went off deactivating 8496MHz downlink from lander!
Yeah, but I found Jon Stewart's gurning and try-hard manner too painful to watch. Even he can be funnier than that...
Yeah, only the four on Mars. Rather pathetic.
Agreed... I really hate this whole "lol china sucks they only did something we did 40 years ago" thing.
Quote from: Blackstar on 02/11/2014 12:16 pmYeah, only the four on Mars. Rather pathetic.Yep, it is pathetic saying "Nyah, China did something (Moon robotic rover) that USA did 40 year ago" when, in fact USA did NOT deployed any Moon robotic rover. This is called lie.
No signals tonite on 8.4GHz from either the Chinese lunar lander or the rover. Will keep monitoring the situation for a bit...
http://pjm.uhf-satcom.com/twtr/change3_lander2.jpghttp://pjm.uhf-satcom.com/twtr/change3_lander2_uplink1.jpgWhoa!! The first chart is labeled "uplink reflected off the moon". In English this means the radio command from Earth just bounced off the surface and was detected as a pulse, NOT that any signal from a vehicle on the moon was received and decoded on Earth. This could just be a translation problem, OR a complete misunderstanding by the page's operators in Beijing. It's NOT evidence that either vehicle is functioning. The second chart DOES claim downlink, but I can't read it, and no official press announcement seems to have been made. Unpop the champagne corks, friends -- at least for a little while longer.
Quote from: Dalhousie on 02/11/2014 07:15 amAnd of course the US has never had a robotic lunar rover.Yeah, only the four on Mars. Rather pathetic.
Quote from: MATTBLAK on 02/09/2014 10:35 amYeah, but I found Jon Stewart's gurning and try-hard manner too painful to watch. Even he can be funnier than that... I like Stewart a lot, but he has never been very pro space exploration. I've watched him for years and for many years he would occasionally do a segment that went something like "Mars rover found water on Mars. Who cares?" or "Cassini spacecraft found ice around Saturn. Who cares?" He has done less and less of those things over the years, but he's not the kind of host who regularly has astronauts or space scientists on his show, other than Neil deGrasse Tyson. On the other hand, Stephen Colbert whose show follows Stewart's every night,is clearly a space enthusiast. There are lots of examples of this. He often has on scientists and astronauts and has stories about spaceflight. His humor about space might be silly, but it rarely comes from the opinion that it is a waste of money.
So this is it.http://www.ecns.cn/2014/02-12/100479.shtmlChinese rover has been lost forever.
OK, I'm an electronic engineer so I might be able to add some insight here.