Author Topic: LIVE: Chang'e-3 lunar probe and rover, CZ-3B - Xichang - December 1, 2013 (Read 488731 times)

beidou · « **Reply #120 on:** 07/07/2013 12:56 pm »

http://bbs.9ifly.cn/forum.php?mod=redirect&goto=findpost&ptid=451&pid=257276&fromuid=24484

Galactic Penguin SST · « **Reply #121 on:** 07/07/2013 01:16 pm »

Quote from: beidou on 07/07/2013 12:56 pm

http://bbs.9ifly.cn/forum.php?mod=redirect&goto=findpost&ptid=451&pid=257276&fromuid=24484

A bit of note: the workers were pulling up a test rig for the lander soft landing tests, which were performed recently.

Original link: http://www.spacechina.com/n25/n144/n206/n133097/c462653/content.html

tonyq · « **Reply #122 on:** 07/08/2013 04:58 pm »

Great deduction here, giving us a possible launch window 21-23 November:-

http://www.zarya.info/Diaries/China/ChangE/ChangE3Window.php

Galactic Penguin SST · « **Reply #123 on:** 08/07/2013 08:46 am »

Ooh...... looks like someone has leaked out loads of information about the Chinese plans of solar system exploration!

http://bbs.astron.ac.cn/thread-93001-1-1.html

Liu Qinghui, a researcher working at the Shanghai Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (which includes their 65 meter radio telescope), said in the presentation above that CE-3 is scheduled to launch at about 1 am local time on December 2 (~17:00 UTC on December 1). That's bang in the mark with my prediction a few months ago!

Galactic Penguin SST · « **Reply #124 on:** 08/28/2013 11:36 am »

Chang'e 3 has passed the critical reviews 4 days ago and is now ready for shipping to the launch site.

http://www.spacechina.com/n25/n144/n206/n214/c510680/content.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/tech/2013-08/28/c_117132510.htm

beidou · « **Reply #125 on:** 08/28/2013 08:57 pm »

Phillip Clark · « **Reply #126 on:** 08/29/2013 05:53 am »

Quote from: beidou on 08/28/2013 08:57 pm

Is it possible for someone to translate the captions please?

apace · « **Reply #127 on:** 08/29/2013 12:44 pm »

According to Welt.de/Reuters, the chinese moon rover will have also the task to plant a chinese flag on the moon.

http://www.welt.de/wissenschaft/weltraum/article119498983/China-will-noch-2013-Flagge-auf-dem-Mond-hissen.html

beidou · « **Reply #128 on:** 09/01/2013 07:40 pm »

Quote from: Phillip Clark on 08/29/2013 05:53 am

Quote from: beidou on 08/28/2013 08:57 pm

Is it possible for someone to translate the captions please?

There is nothing special in the slide. The caption just mentioned the launch will be by the end of this year, and the numbers in the slide are the milestones (in terms of months, years) of this project.

Satori · « **Reply #129 on:** 09/05/2013 05:25 pm »

Moon landing mission to use "secret weapons".

JimO · « **Reply #130 on:** 09/06/2013 12:34 am »

Quote from: Satori on 09/05/2013 05:25 pm

Moon landing mission to use "secret weapons".

That's got to be some mistranslation, no?

Galactic Penguin SST · « **Reply #131 on:** 09/11/2013 03:47 am »

Chang'e 3 has been transported to Beijing's international airport earlier today. Later today it will be loaded on board an Antonov 124 for fly-out to Xichang early tomorrow.

http://bbs.9ifly.cn/forum.php?mod=redirect&goto=findpost&ptid=11199&pid=264656&fromuid=19646

Star One · « **Reply #132 on:** 09/11/2013 11:08 am »

Quote from: Galactic Penguin SST on 09/11/2013 03:47 am

Chang'e 3 has been transported to Beijing's international airport earlier today. Later today it will be loaded on board an Antonov 124 for fly-out to Xichang early tomorrow.

http://bbs.9ifly.cn/forum.php?mod=redirect&goto=findpost&ptid=11199&pid=264656&fromuid=19646

I didn't know the Chinese used the 124, how long have they been using it in this capacity?

plutogno · « **Reply #133 on:** 09/11/2013 05:03 pm »

they are renting the An 124, just like everyone else, I believe...

Blackstar · « **Reply #134 on:** 09/12/2013 07:03 pm »

A very stupid op-ed on this subject:

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-09-08/news/os-ed-oped-china-lunar-lander-20130906_1_moon-orbit-leading-space-faring-nation

I honestly don't know where this guy gets all these crazy ideas.

Star One · « **Reply #135 on:** 09/12/2013 07:17 pm »

Quote from: Blackstar on 09/12/2013 07:03 pm

A very stupid op-ed on this subject:

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-09-08/news/os-ed-oped-china-lunar-lander-20130906_1_moon-orbit-leading-space-faring-nation

I honestly don't know where this guy gets all these crazy ideas.

What on earth is he on about in that article!

Blackstar · « **Reply #136 on:** 09/12/2013 08:45 pm »

I don't know. It's just rather nutty. "Nobody paid any attention to the announcement that China is launching a robotic probe to the Moon." Yeah, well virtually nobody paid any attention when NASA launched LADEE either, at least until the frog came along.

And then he mentions that China--gasp!--has a space station! Er, yeah, and the ISS has been in orbit since the late 1990s.

But occasionally you will run across somebody who thinks that if China puts a human on the Moon--when? someday...--it is going to be a major threat to humankind. I'm no fan of the Chinese government, but if they put humans on the Moon, it won't change anything.

The byline is rather vague about what this guy did when he was in government.

Satori · « **Reply #137 on:** 09/25/2013 04:56 pm »

China Unveils Its First and Unnamed Moon Rover.

elakdawalla · « **Reply #138 on:** 09/25/2013 04:58 pm »

!!

"Chinese scientists described the country's first moon rover on Wednesday and invited the global public to come up with a name for it."

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-09/25/c_132750241.htm

More detail on the naming process here, though no direct link to a submission site: http://www.china.org.cn/china/2013-09/25/content_30131077.htm

savuporo · « **Reply #139 on:** 10/01/2013 04:35 pm »

A bit more on the naming
http://inventorspot.com/articles/chinas_first_robot_moon_rover_needs_name_wants_your_input