China's Space Program Thread II

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A most amusing post from Chang'e 6's official weibo account:
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"Hi everyone, I am Chang'e 6, I am currently digging for soil on the moon"
Note the geolocation information that normally shows which province you are posting from is instead saying "the moon" for this post.

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Sample collection should be done about now, the probe is expected to take off to return to lunar orbit tomorrow.
 
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I'm anxious about this mission and the lack of info so far. No images from the surface. Sampling should have been completed by now. Hopefully not warranted.
 
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Michael90 said:
To be fair it was a US private company who landed on the moon which is actually impressive for a private company to attempt a moon landing (which they did but spacecraft didnt land upright but tilted), So they can be forgiven. By contrast Russia and Japan were national projects backed by their national government agences but they still failed completely for the former and partially for the latter. India failed the first time but got it second time.
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This is the typical excuse of US failure. All US spacecrafts and rockets are made by private companies. If you excuse US failure because something is made by private company, then there is nothing NATIONAL in US, there is no national project in US either including Artemis program.

Here is the US moon lander, it is made under NASA contract as part of NASA CLPS initiative. The FAILED US lander is as much being "national projcet backed by US government" as Russia and Japan. The lander is no different from SLS and Orion (contracted by NASA in NASA's program).

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Intuitive Machines holds three NASA contracts under the space agency's
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(CLPS) initiative, to deliver payloads to the lunar surface.
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Among these, the company holds a contract to develop a
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victoon said:
I didn't realize these guys made it into the control room.

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I hope you are just being sarcastic?

This is just technical stuff, nothing political. They have their payload on Chang'e-6 just like other Chinese payloads. Every payload owner need to verify and confirm that their payload works properly or acknowledge the failure to conclude the whole mission. Neither they nor CNSA would have had these payloads onboard if relevant mission scientists were barred to mission control.
 
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