The moon lander has launched the samples back into orbit. Next is rendezvous with the Earth return stage and landing capsule.
https://twitter.com/LaunchStuff/stat...32444884766720
With a short video sequence of liftoff.
The moon lander has launched the samples back into orbit. Next is rendezvous with the Earth return stage and landing capsule.
https://twitter.com/LaunchStuff/stat...32444884766720
With a short video sequence of liftoff.
Hayabusa to land in Australia this weekend.
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Hayabusa 2 reentry video.
Helicopters are searching for the landed capsule in the australian outback.
Hayabusa capsule recovered. Full mission success.
https://twitter.com/AusSpaceAgency/s...76557947248642
The Chinese Moon lander ascent vehicle has docked with the Earth return vehicle and the samples transfered into the landing capsule. It will be a few days until the return window.
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Two reports in the Chinese press:
Xi congratulates complete success of Chang'e-5 mission
Xinhua | Updated: 2020-12-17 06:2
Chang'e 5's reentry capsule lands with moon samples - Chinadaily.com.cn
Uncle Xi's finishes with "China's first lunar surface sampling and sealing, first liftoff from the moon, first rendezvous and docking in lunar orbit, and first spacecraft carrying samples to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere".
Note, not "manned spacecraft"
Chang'e 5's reentry capsule lands with moon samples
By ZHAO LEI | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2020-12-17 02:15
Chang'e 5's reentry capsule lands with moon samples - Chinadaily.com.cn
The more detailed China National Space Administration repot includes:
"China's most sophisticated and challenging space adventure – the Chang'e 5 robotic lunar mission – ended successfully early Thursday morning with its load of rocks and dust from the moon landing on the grasslands in northern China."
and
"According to the space administration, the Chang'e 5 mission was designated to fulfill several objectives. In terms of space engineering, it should demonstrate and verify technical plans and apparatus for autonomous lunar sampling and packing, moon-based launching as well as lunar orbital docking."
A tray full of GOLD is not worth a moment in time.
A short video of the full mission. Beginning with the launch and ending with the return capsule landing and recovery.
A few comments. The rocket is a chinese development, no more copy of early Soviet designs. It looks very similar to US rockets but US rockets have solid side boosters, similar to ICBMs, which has some disadvantages. Solid boosters introduce a lot of vibration, not good for sensitive probes or for humans. Some safety issues for manned flights too. China uses additional side boosters too, but they have liquid propellant engines, similar to the central main stage. Not as useful for ICBM but better for spaceflight. Moon orbiter and lander are modern chinese developments. The only part of the mission that shows clear Soviet heritage is the Earth return capsule which has an aerodynamic shape similar to Soyuz.
But their new coming manned capsule has a much more modern aerodynamic shape, a fully chinese development.
"don't attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence"
Great video, thanks for posting. So the oribtoer, lander and ascender are now moon junk, or do they have other missions or tasks to perform?
They have crashed the ascender on the Moon, which is good practice compared to leaving it in Moon orbit. The orbiter is the return vehicle that pushed the lander back to Earth. So, being on the same trajectory as the return capsule it must have burned up in the Earth atmosphere. The lander is still on the Moon. I don't know if it still has any function, don't think so.
An improvement on their usual videos. Good mix of simulation and real images, pity no human/lander shots to illustrate it's size.
The successful lander/orbiting return craft mating, looked a bit "heavy".
Are the launch rocket engines Chinese design, not Russian?
Thanks.
Last edited by OhOh; 18-12-2020 at 09:03 PM.
That doesn't mean it landed. The whole thing was faked, they couldn't work out how to land it, that's why they didn't show the landing.
They just sent the thing orbiting around the moon, sent it back and they'll present some convincing-looking dust and rocks from Outer Mongolia as evidence.
The great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, the first of its kind in 400 years
Jupiter and Saturn have been close all week as seen here, but soon they will be in a very rare conjunction.(Supplied: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
In a rare spectacle, Jupiter and Saturn will have one of their closest alignments on Monday — so close that a pinkie finger at arm's length will easily cover both planets in the sky.
Key points:
- The two planets won't appear this close to each other again until 2080
- Jupiter and Saturn will appear in the evening twilight about half an hour after sunset
- They will only be visible for an hour before disappearing below the western horizon
The great conjunction of the planets, appearing on the evening of December 21, is mistakenly called the Christmas Star.
When and where to look
This is what you could see through a telescope: Jupiter, Saturn and moons from Sydney at 9:00pm (AEDT) on December 21.(Stellarium/Genelle Weule)
Here
I bet Looper uses this conjunction and having a telescope as an excuse to lure some young Asian girl into his den, to have his evil way with her.
So when does the US Ambassador to London start slaughtering newborn boys? I knew that bloke was a wrong 'un.
What ?
Are you referring to astrology ?
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