China lands Jade Rabbit robot rover on Moon

Re:China lands Jade Rabbit robot rover on Moon by swatkat on Saturday December 14, 2013 @12:12AM (#6904724)

CCTV live stream begins at 11:00 UTC. Landing scheduled for around 13:40 UTC, 14th Dec.

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Re:China lands Jade Rabbit robot rover on Moon by dingaling on Saturday December 14, 2013 @06:27AM (#6905382)

That'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/2013/1213091...

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Re:China lands Jade Rabbit robot rover on Moon by yapcguy on Saturday December 14, 2013 @12:59AM (#6904825)

Do you have a link to a live stream?

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Re:China lands Jade Rabbit robot rover on Moon by swatkat on Saturday December 14, 2013 @01:30AM (#6904890)

Not 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

Edit:

Live stream will be at: http://english.cntv.cn/live/

Planetary Society blog: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/1213091...

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Re:China lands Jade Rabbit robot rover on Moon by imdsm on Saturday December 14, 2013 @06:27AM (#6905384)

Stream is now live, landing should be around 13:40 UTC IIRC.

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Re:China lands Jade Rabbit robot rover on Moon by dingaling on Saturday December 14, 2013 @06:30AM (#6905388)

CCTV have just ( as of 11:30 UTC ) announced live coverage from 20:00 to 22:00 Beijing Time.

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Re:China lands Jade Rabbit robot rover on Moon by edta on Saturday December 14, 2013 @08:00AM (#6905572)

link to a live stream:

http://news.cntv.cn/special/videolive/change3/index.shtml

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