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China lands Jade Rabbit robot rover on Moon
- swatkat 13y agoCCTV live stream begins at 11:00 UTC. Landing scheduled for around 13:40 UTC, 14th Dec.
- yapcguy 13y agoDo you have a link to a live stream?
- swatkat 13y agoNot yet. Looks like 4 more hours to go for live stream to begin. I'm following this thread for updates: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=33511.0 http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=33511.0 Edit: Live stream will be at: http://english.cntv.cn/live/ http://english.cntv.cn/live/ Planetary Society blog: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/12130915-change-3-landing-tomorrow.html http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/1213091...
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- imdsm 13y agoStream is now live, landing should be around 13:40 UTC IIRC.
- dingaling 13y agoCCTV have just ( as of 11:30 UTC ) announced live coverage from 20:00 to 22:00 Beijing Time.
- edta 13y agolink to a live stream: http://news.cntv.cn/special/videolive/change3/index.shtml http://news.cntv.cn/special/videolive/change3/index.shtml
- dingaling 13y agoThat's a couple of hours than they originally scheduled. I wonder what caused the change? The surveillance baseline only has a length of eight hours or so, so they don't have much leeway in actual landing window if they need the touch-down to be visible. Here's a compilation of latest news ( from yesterday ) http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/12130915-change-3-landing-tomorrow.html http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/1213091...
- jotm 13y agoWell, let's hope they succeed!
- yapcguy 13y agoYep. Hope people can put politics aside and appreciate another step forward for humanity and science. Good luck to all involved!
- wavesounds 13y agoI think another space race would be a good thing actually. In fact I think it's how we should solve all our international disputes: First country to put a man on mars gets the South China Sea.
- Kliment 13y agoCan non-nations apply? (Thinking of the South Musk Sea)
- maxden 13y agoAlive or dead?
- gdewilde 13y agoThey are going to die anyway.
- thaumasiotes 13y agoBut... putting a man on Mars takes a good chunk of his life for no gain to anyone. Why not "first country to build a 700-foot traditional stone pyramid"? "First country to paint 30% of its land area blue"?
- noselasd 13y agoI'd be more excited about getting people to Mars, and so would presumably many other - and it'd provide much more advances and gains than building a pyramid.
- sreejithr 13y agoGood to see someone heating up the space race again. Hope to see awesome retaliations from other agencies.
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- swatkat 13y agoLive coverage started. Video: http://english.cntv.cn/live/ http://english.cntv.cn/live/ Text: http://live.china.org.cn/2013/12/13/coming-soon-change-3-lands-on-the-moon/ http://live.china.org.cn/2013/12/13/coming-soon-change-3-lan...
- aw3c2 13y agoDirect streaming via mms://wmv3.china.com.cn/live2?cccode=cc1291 (lags a lot for me)
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- swatkat 13y agoLanding success. Congrats to China. Rover will be deployed from lander few hours (8 hrs?) later. Landing video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnM-sJ-KbNg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnM-sJ-KbNg
- gokhan 13y agoCongrats to China. It was really exciting to see it live.
- clayrichardson 13y agoI can't wait until we have realtime streaming video feeds from other vehicles documenting other landings in progress. Edit: Spelling and words.
- outworlder 13y agoWe are getting there, seen as how MRO managed to snap a picture of Curiosity's descent. Or how NASA tried to work with India (Chandrayaan-1 and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) to perform a bistatic radar experiment. I find the idea of two entirely diferent crafts operated by two countries and working together to be fascinating.