China's Space Program Thread II

[huemens]

That looked to me like a close call. It was definitely off-centre. A few more centimetres and it looked like the a claw would have hit one of the beams of the ascender maybe causing it to glance off.

If you are talking about 0:29 it just the camera angle that makes it look that way. Notice how when the beam goes all the way down, it doesn't touch the base of the claw until the claw folds. In the next shot you can see how wider apart the claw ends are compared to the base of the claw, and you can see two claws very clearly and that the beams are about the center of the claw gaps.

 

[Wayne Js]

If you are talking about 0:29 it just the camera angle that makes it look that way. Notice how when the beam goes all the way down, it doesn't touch the base of the claw until the claw folds. In the next shot you can see how wider apart the claw ends are compared to the base of the claw, and you can see two claws very clearly and that the beams are about the center of the claw gaps.

I don't know much about the technicality of this process, but from what the interviewers had said (the above YT video, in Chinese), it appears everything happened was by design.

 

[taxiya]

That looked to me like a close call. It was definitely off-centre. A few more centimetres and it looked like the a claw would have hit one of the beams of the ascender maybe causing it to glance off.

You are tricked by your viewing angle.

Here is your close call. You are looking through channel 2 of the monitor A.


Now look from channel 1 of the monitor A, see how "close"/far it actually is. Channel 1 is 60 degrees on one side of channel 2.

 

[tokenanalyst]

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[by78]

The tracks left by the tiny rover (1st image) and the rover itself (2nd image).

 

[by78]

A milestone: construction of launchpad no. 2 of the Hainan Commercial Spaceport is officially complete.

 

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A high-resolution images of Olympus Mons taken by the Tianwen-1 Mars orbiter.

 

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First photos beamed back by TEE-01B satellite that was launched by Ceres-1 yesterday.

 

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A computer rendering of Eros orbital experimental platform that was launched yesterday by Ceres-1.

 

[by78]

For 2024, Tianjin Yunyao Aerospace plans to launch 41 Yunyao meteorological satellites, six of which have already be launched earlier this year. The company plans to eventually operate a commercial meteorological constellation consisting of 80 satellites, 19 of which are already in orbit.