Chinese Moon Lander

[W.G.Ewald]

As long as CCP doesn't start claiming moon for itself after it lands something on it! Joking!

Not a joke, really. It would not be surprising if Chinese declared the moon to be within their ADIZ.

 

[Abhijeet Dey]

Not a joke, really. It would not be surprising if Chinese declared the moon to be within their ADIZ.

Enforcing ADIZ on the moon would mean militarization of space. This will bring new kinds of technologies like in Sci-fi movies.

 

[hbogyt]

You wish stuff in your profile picture would come true don't you?

 

[Mr.Ryu]

hmmm Congraz to China

 

[sayareakd]

congrats China.

We should also send rover to Moon and bring some samples back to earth.

 

[Abhijeet Dey]

You wish stuff in your profile picture would come true don't you?

Yes if countries like US and China are willing to spend money on these type of technologies. China can even have its own zone in space.

 

[no smoking]

In this article the BBC have not even mentioned poverty in China with respect to their moon mission. Whereas the British are free to criticize India's mars mission and lack of social well being for poor people in India.

I think they have good reason to do so:

We have 3 trillions reserve and you don't;
You are struggling with the double deficits for decades and we are not;
You are the one experiencing the financial crisis, not us.

And more importantly, visisting Mars makes far less scientific sense comparing to moon landing CURRENTLY.

 

[t_co]

Here is a picture of the Chinese Moon Rover. The design of the wheel spokes is very intelligent indeed. It has been made in a way that it reduces weight and at the same time allows the Lunar dust to fall off as the vehicle moves forward. What I find odd is that contraption sticking out in the front and touching the ground. Are the Chinese paranoid that someone will have planted anti-personnel mines out there?

Source: BBC News - Why China is fixated on the Moon

The contraption touching the ground is a spectrometer for assessing the chemical composition of lunar rocks and soil.

 

[t_co]

Enforcing ADIZ on the moon would mean militarization of space. This will bring new kinds of technologies like in Sci-fi movies.

Unfortunately, without militarizing space, there is no way of securing property rights in space, and absent property rights in space, there is no economic incentive for anyone to colonize it...

 

[pmaitra]

The contraption touching the ground is a spectrometer for assessing the chemical composition of lunar rocks and soil.

Thank you Sir. I am much delighted.

 

[roma]

Unfortunately, without militarizing space, there is no way of securing property rights in space, and absent property rights in space, there is no economic incentive for anyone to colonize it...

of course ! that's what i had expected ....... any smallest pebble , if china can get their hands on it !!

i had on a previous page already written , as point #5:-

(5) lets also focus on the moon - more - rather than go for too distant objectives
if we leave the moon to the chinese - that will be another strategic blunder
not very different from what Nehru did in 1962 by ignoring all the road-building they did
and pretending it didnt matter
- except this time the blunder occurs .... on the moon !!

( partial quote )

 

[Free Karma]

It seems that some parts of the chinese rocket fell down into a poor farmers barn lol

Debris from the rocket carrying China's first moon rover plummeted to earth in a village more than 620 miles (1,000 km) from the launch site, according to a report.
People living near the wreckage claimed the metallic debris crashed into two homes and it is not the first time the area has been hit by rocket parts.
The incident, which was reported on Monday, is believed to have occurred in Suining County in the central province of Hunan, around nine minutes after the launch of the Chang'e-3 mission.

The area has been hit by space wreckage nearly 20 times, the Xiaoxiang Morning Post said.
One local resident told the newspaper: 'Three of the roof beams have crashed down on our house, and a big hole has been punched into our barn.

Authorities gave the residents 10,800 yuan (£1,081) and 5,200 yuan (£521) in compensation, according to the newspaper, which reported that no one was injured.
A Long March-3B carrier rocket, China's most powerful rocket, blasted off at around 1:30 am Monday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in south western China.
The lunar rover mission known as 'Jade Rabbit' is part of China's ambitious space programme, which aims to establish a permanent space station by 2020 and eventually send a human to the moon.

But debris from China's numerous space launches has frequently found its way to Suining county, which has been hit by rocket parts nearly 20 times since the early 1990s, according to the newspaper.
Last May wreckage from a rocket sent up by the Xichang Launch Centre crashed into homes and hit a high-voltage wire in the area, according to the Shanghai Daily News.
In October 2011 a steel frame weighing more than 250 kilograms, or 550 pounds, landed in a field after another satellite launch and other wreckage pierced a house roof.

Read more: Space invader! Man claims debris from rocket carrying China's first moon rover crashed through the roof of his house | Mail Online

Wonder if it's worth anything on e-bay...or whatever the chinese equivalent is

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Wonder if it's worth anything on e-bay...or whatever the chinese equivalent is

Chinese equivalent of eBay is eBay, but as scammers.

DO NOT BUY FROM CHINA - The eBay Community

 

[W.G.Ewald]

China safely soft-lands rover on the moon

News from The Associated Press

China on Saturday successfully carried out the world's first soft landing of a space probe on the moon in nearly four decades.

State-run China Central Television showed a computer-generated image of the Chang'e 3 lander's path as it approached the surface of the moon, explaining that for a 12-minute landing period it would have no contact with Earth. As it was just hundreds of meters (yards) away, the lander's camera broadcast images of the moon's surface.

The Chang'e 3's solar panels, which are used to absorb sunlight to generate power, opened soon after Saturday evening's landing. The Chang'e 3 will set up antennae that will transmit the first pictures back to Earth.

 

[Free Karma]

Re: China safely soft-lands rover on the moon

Video
China's Chang'e-3 landing on the Moon - YouTube

After the video..the actual moment of the landing:

 

[cobra commando]

Re: China safely soft-lands rover on the moon

Kudos

 

[Free Karma]

Re: China safely soft-lands rover on the moon

Gratz to China! Expecting some awesome pictures,
@pmaitra, mods, perhaps we can merge the thread with the moon lander thread? http://defenceforumindia.com/forum/science-technology/56438-chinese-moon-lander.html

 

[Kyubi]

Re: China safely soft-lands rover on the moon

Its a stupendous achievement by the Chinese space agency:clap:. I hope our moon mission will be equally succesful when it is launched in year or two.

 

[p2prada]

Congrats China.

 

[badguy2000]

It's also partly because foreign news agencies in china only see what they're allowed to see , whereas over here they are allowed to go where ever and shoot whatever, the first place that these reporters go to is a random slum and adopt a condescending tone, theyve seen it so many times, that it's the only image that comes to their heads, the normal working guy doesnt even exist.
But that being said their poverty alleviation schemes seem to have worked quite well, I think by their definition it's about 150 mill, while it's around 300 here, going by the numbers you see on most reports.

well..the simple reason is that india is indeed much poorer than CHina.