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#40
by
Phil Stooke
on 27 May, 2024 19:14
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#41
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 29 May, 2024 10:03
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#42
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 30 May, 2024 09:57
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I was casually checking on other things and accidentally saw an update from an "insider" source (not gonna post the link here since I'm not sure if leaking this out is a problem; PM me if you want it) - it looks like the 2nd and 3rd lunar orbit insertion/circulation burns were performed on May 9th (~02:56 UTC, to 4 hours period elliptical orbit) and May 21st (~14:27 UTC, to 200 x 200 km x 43° LLO) respectively.
Neither of these were officially reported.
Same "insider source" now updated claiming that the lander will separate from the orbiter-return capsule TODAY, May 30. Landing is still on June 2 as reported above.
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#43
by
Spiceman
on 30 May, 2024 11:14
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That first week of June will be pretty exciting !
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#44
by
punder
on 01 Jun, 2024 22:32
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Here’s something… no idea if it’s legit.
Update: nope.
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#45
by
punder
on 01 Jun, 2024 22:43
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And… no, the first one is NOT legit
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#46
by
tolis
on 01 Jun, 2024 22:59
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There is a post by Thorsten Denk on unmannedspaceflight.com suggesting the landing already took place.
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#47
by
DT1
on 01 Jun, 2024 23:00
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#48
by
tolis
on 01 Jun, 2024 23:14
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#49
by
DT1
on 01 Jun, 2024 23:16
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#50
by
Blackstar
on 01 Jun, 2024 23:29
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I have this memory that when they did CE-3 they broadcast in real time. Is that true? Now they don't want to do anything live?
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#51
by
Hungry4info3
on 01 Jun, 2024 23:44
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Yes. CE3 was broadcast live. It might be harder to do farside missions due to the comm differences. I'm not sure.
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#52
by
spaceman3
on 02 Jun, 2024 00:14
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Amazing to see the difference between, say, the ISRO landing w/ Chandrayaan-3, which was widely discussed online (and on the front page of the NY Times the next day!) and this landing which isn't being discussed in the usual space-obsessed places such as the Facebook Space Hipster group or on X.
Or maybe I'm missing something.
If this landing is successful (still unknown), it's a pretty significant achievement, especially this year, when several other landers have failed to land successfully.
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#53
by
Hungry4info3
on 02 Jun, 2024 00:38
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#54
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 02 Jun, 2024 01:37
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Amazing to see the difference between, say, the ISRO landing w/ Chandrayaan-3, which was widely discussed online (and on the front page of the NY Times the next day!) and this landing which isn't being discussed in the usual space-obsessed places such as the Facebook Space Hipster group or on X.
Or maybe I'm missing something.
If this landing is successful (still unknown), it's a pretty significant achievement, especially this year, when several other landers have failed to land successfully.
You can't do anything when Chinese officials doesn't offer any concrete updates to the mission since initial lunar orbit injection in early May...
Anyway touchdown occurred at 22:23:15.861 UTC. As far as I can see, if the Chinese has received surface images, they haven't released them yet. Also the landing coordinates is not seen (though looking at the MCC screens I imagine it won't be far away from planned).
https://twitter.com/Cosmic_Penguin/status/1797079286970790147https://twitter.com/Cosmic_Penguin/status/1797079289978048946
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#55
by
Blackstar
on 02 Jun, 2024 01:37
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Amazing to see the difference between, say, the ISRO landing w/ Chandrayaan-3, which was widely discussed online (and on the front page of the NY Times the next day!) and this landing which isn't being discussed in the usual space-obsessed places such as the Facebook Space Hipster group or on X.
Or maybe I'm missing something.
If this landing is successful (still unknown), it's a pretty significant achievement, especially this year, when several other landers have failed to land successfully.
It's primarily the secrecy.
Also, doing something for the fourth time is a bit less interesting for the media.
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#56
by
spaceman3
on 02 Jun, 2024 01:57
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It's primarily the secrecy.
Also, doing something for the fourth time is a bit less interesting for the media.
Oh yeah, no doubt it's the secrecy. I guess I'm a little confused as they had way more PR for previous landings but not this one. The previous sampling mission, if I recall, had tons of live updates.
I'll say there's one more issue: with India, English is embedded into national culture so it's much easier to translate across global media. This is not the case with China.
Either way, impressive stuff. Let's see if they manage to pull off the much harder part--the liftoff, rendezvous and docking, and return to Earth.
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#57
by
Hungry4info3
on 02 Jun, 2024 01:57
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The super-secret broadcast that's shrouded in secrecy is about to start in ~2 minutes.
(seriously, can we knock it off with this cold war era mindset?)
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#58
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 02 Jun, 2024 02:04
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#59
by
Blackstar
on 02 Jun, 2024 02:22
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