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An X-ray image of the Moon captured by the Sino-European Einstein probe in time for the mid-autumn festival.
China's Space Program Thread II
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An X-ray image of the Moon captured by the Sino-European Einstein probe in time for the mid-autumn festival.
The moon is an incredibly harsh environment, to have a functional rover (the longest duration in fact) is a great achievement for Chinese space flight.The Yutu-2 lunar rover has traveled 1,613 meters so far. It's been operating for 5 years and 9 months, far exceeding its original design life.
At least it proves that it is at least possible for machinery to survive on lunar surface for an extended period. I have no doubt much of the redundancy features will be useful also for lunar habitation.
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Some high-resolution images from the 10km VTVL test by the Eighth Academy of CASC.
Screen caps from a TV report which allegedly says that Jiuzhou's Longyun engine will be used in a 75km-level VTVL test later this year. The likely candidate is CASC's VTVL vehicle, which is powered by the Longyun and had conducted a 10km-level VTVL test back in June.
The 59th and 60th BeiDou satellites were launched into Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) at 9:15, from a Long March 3B with Yuanzheng-1 upper stage. I've included a tweet with the video of the launch below, as well as some screenshots from Weibo provided by ithome.com.
