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Chang'e 5 - Yazata - Nov 23, 2020
Tomorrow 11-23, China is set to launch its Chang'e lunar sample return mission from the Wenchang launch center on Hainan Island. This will be the first Lunar sample return mission since one launched by Russia in 1976. If successful, it will make China the third country to return Lunar surface samples from the Moon to Earth, behind the US and USSR.
It being China, I don't know of any live-streams.
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/956
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27e_5
RE: Chang'e 5 - Yazata - Nov 23, 2020
It's successfully launched.
https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1330972439241781250
Turned out that there were live-streams, including an English language one. Unfortunately, I didn't know about them or how to find them until the launch was over.
Hopefully they will have streams when it lands and takes off from the Moon too. And hopefully I do a better job of finding them.
RE: Chang'e 5 - C C - Nov 23, 2020
(Nov 23, 2020 10:43 PM)Yazata Wrote: It's successfully launched.
https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1330972439241781250
Turned out that there were live-streams, including an English language one. Unfortunately, I didn't know about them or how to find them until the launch was over.
Hopefully they will have streams when it lands and takes off from the Moon too. And hopefully I do a better job of finding them.
After all these decades that he's been dead, still seems odd to not see Chairman Mao's visage planted amidst the Chinese language characters, beaming approvingly.
RE: Chang'e 5 - Yazata - Dec 1, 2020
The Chang'e Chinese lunar sample return vehicle is landing on the Moon
https://twitter.com/LaunchStuff/status/1333799955778072577
Edit: It's reportedly successfully down on the Moon's surface.
https://twitter.com/BBCAmos/status/1333795113340858373
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Plenty of confusion surrounding the landing. Chinese TV was covering it live. Then the coverage inexplicably stopped. Speculation was that something bad had happened to the mission. Then an announcement that coverage would resume tonight, Beijing time. Then triumphant word that the touchdown had just occurred. Was Chinese censorship unwilling to show the landing if it turned out to be a failure?
It definitely seems to be down. Chinese media are all reporting the landing and amateurs have verified its signals coming from the Moon.
https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/1333787047450951687
https://twitter.com/LaunchStuff/status/1333784980321832962
https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/1333790653713584131
https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/1333793445647826950
https://twitter.com/BBCAmos/status/1333795113340858373
RE: Chang'e 5 - Yazata - Dec 13, 2020
Jonathan McDowell, the Jonathan's Space Report guy, reports that Chang'e 5 is either about to or has just completed its trans-Earth-injection burn that puts it and its cargo of Moon-dirt on a return trajectory to Earth.