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Don't tell me they fucked it up. Hoohoo will be sobbing into his chow mein.
If it's splattered all over the lunar surface there will be pictures of it soon enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by Takeovers
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We will see. Remember that Israel and India both had failed landings. But for both it was a first. China has successfully landed 2 landers in recent years. Still, there is always a risk of failure.
嫦娥五号探测器实施动力下降并成功着陆 将在预选区域开展月面采样工作-新华网
I hope we will get photos of the landing site by the lander soon.Quote:
Web translation:
The Chang'e-5 spacecraft will carry out the lunar surface sampling in the pre-selected area after the power descent and successful landing
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 1 (Reporter Hu Zhe). The reporter learned from the National Space Administration that at 23:11 on December 1 the Chang'e-5 probe successfully landed on the front side of the moon in the pre-selected landing zone at 51.8 degrees West longitude and 43.1 degrees North latitude and returned the landing images.
At 22:57 on December 1, the lander and ascender combination of the Chang'e-5 probe began a power descent from a distance of 15 kilometers from the lunar surface. The 7,500 N variable thrust engine was turned on to gradually reduce the probe's longitudinal velocity relative to the moon from about 1.7 km/s dropped to zero.
During the period, the probe made rapid attitude adjustments and gradually approached the moon surface; after that, automatic obstacle detection was carried out. After the landing point was selected, it began to avoid obstacles and descend slowly and vertically, and landed smoothly on the north of the Mons Rümker in the Storm Ocean on the front side of the moon. During the landing, the landing camera equipped with the lander took an images of the landing area.
After a successful landing, under control from Earth, the lander has carried out the state inspection and setup work such as the deployment of the solar panel and the directional antenna, and will officially start the lunar surface work lasting about 2 days to collect lunar samples.
The lading sequence until after touch down.
Chang'e 5 successfully land Moon - YouTube
The rest is all being faked in a warehouse in Shenzen.
Was lucky enough to visit this a couple of years ago. So sad it ended this way but it has been starved of funding by Republican arseholes.
The buildings top right are the viewing platform, education centre and gift shop.
I have a glass 3D model of it on my office desk.
'''A huge loss''': Giant Puerto Rico radio telescope collapses, following damageQuote:
A huge loss': Giant Puerto Rico radio telescope collapses, following damage
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2020/12/14.jpg
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Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
Bah, just a little scratch.......
On other topics, yesterday was one of the few days each year when the ISS transmits SSTV (slow scan TV) images on the 2 metre amateur band. Reception of these images depends of course on whether the ISS has a visible pass over your location. For me in Laos, the only pass was far too low in the sky to receive any images. But my receiving system did manage to receive some signals from the ISS, which bodes well for reception of future images perhaps next year.
Finally, since I have time on my hands, I spent yesterday building a horn antenna that I plan to use to receive 'hydrogen line' signals on 1420 MHz (hydrogen atoms from stars release a small amount of energy as they flip, and this can be received with suitable equipment). The 1420 MHz frequency is slightly different for hotter stars, and differs in the opposite direction for colder stars. By pointing the antenna at specific stars, one can obtain a map the galaxy.
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A typically bad video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py5cndfk3Jw
Hey dont be bad mouthing Chinastani. Damn boy that is sacrilegious. You should know better.Quote:
Originally Posted by OhOh
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Originally Posted by OhOh
Nah that's unplayed video from the last mission, they just dug it out of the archives.
Uncle Xi and I have similar reactions to poor performance.Quote:
Originally Posted by aging one
Viagra?Quote:
Originally Posted by OhOh
Uncle Xi keeps his medical history to himself. As many do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Topper
China's Chang'e-5 completes sampling on moon
Source: Xinhua| 2020-12-03 11:05:44|Editor: huaxia
China's Chang'e-5 completes sampling on moon - Xinhua | English.news.cn
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.
Japanese probe to light up the sky as it lands in outback Australia
Japan is about to bring back samples of an asteroid 180 million miles away | MIT Technology Review
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Originally Posted by Takeovers
..... From 2013.
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Hayabusa 2 reentry video.
Hayabusa2 capsule fireball streaks across night sky during re-entry - YouTube
Helicopters are searching for the landed capsule in the australian outback.
Hayabusa capsule recovered. Full mission success.
https://twitter.com/AusSpaceAgency/s...76557947248642
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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.
Chang’e-5 docking and sample transfer - YouTube
.... because they've got to dig out the landing video from 2013Quote:
Originally Posted by Takeovers
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The Chang'e 5 return capsule landing will be tomorrow, Dec. 17.
ESA ground station Maspalomas had contact. All seems good so far.
China has a few stations around the world, they have a tracking ship too. But not enough to track Chang'e 5 continuously.
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The return capsule has landed.
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Infrared, the capsule is still warm. Obvious Soyuz heritage, but much smaller.
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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 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.
Watch China's journey to the moon and back in under 3:30 - YouTube
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.
0:49 clearly a digital simulation, and video from their old missions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Takeovers
That is why they cut the live feed.
All fake, like the rest of the shit the chinkies knock out.
Is this just trolling or are you serious? That's on the level of the ancient moon hoax conspiracy theories. A lot of nations today and even a lot of private amateurs have the means of tracking the mission. I posted that ESA tracked the return capsule.Quote:
Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
An improvement on their usual videos. Good mix of simulation and real images, pity no human/lander shots to illustrate it's size.Quote:
Originally Posted by Takeovers
The successful lander/orbiting return craft mating, looked a bit "heavy".
Are the launch rocket engines Chinese design, not Russian?
Thanks.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Takeovers
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.
They have landed before. Lots of data received from landers and rovers, even by amateurs.Quote:
Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
They will make samples available to foreign scientists. Fakes would be detected quickly.
Outer Mongolia isn't a thing anymore. It's called Mongolia now.Quote:
Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
The outer part of Mongolia then. Who gives a fuck?Quote:
Originally Posted by TheMadBaron
Me. I'm a dreadful pedant.Quote:
Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
The great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, the first of its kind in 400 years
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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
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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
Christmas 'star': How to see the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction, closest since 1623 - YouTube
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 ?