China's First Lunar Probe Collides With Moon
China’s first lunar probe, The Chang'e 1, yesterday crashed into the moon in what Beijing is calling a “controlled crash.”
China Daily reports that the satellite hit the moon's surface at 16:13 Beijing time and was under the remote control of two stations in Qingda, eastern China, and Kashgar in the northwest of the country. Named after a Chinese moon goddess, the Chang'e 1 took off on October 24, 2007 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center and spent 494 days in space. Sunday’s collision marks the end of a 16-month moon-mapping mission. The landing is part of China’s plan to land a vehicle on the moon to collect mineral samples in 2012.
The next stage of the three-stage moon mission would be the 2012 launch of the lunar rover; followed by the final 2017 stage whereby another lunar rover will land on the moon and return to Earth with soil and stone samples for scientific research.
-
Previous News Article
Full CBS TV Shows Head to iPhone... -
Next News Article
Yahoo! Spends $79M on Financial...
Oh no, it is going to cause the moon to break in two, Earth will be detroyed. I have seen this in movies about the future.
^haha...i loled so hard.^
Apparently the Chinese satellite was looking for the American flag to see if it was a hoax or not
After 2 years of searching it put itself out of its misery...
they should get a harpoon, shoot it at the moon, 'cuz they're already doin that. and reel it in.
Leave it to the Chinese to figure out how to mine the moon. We had our chance and goofed it up. Now smarter people in China than we have in our country, are working out the details.
We must stop storing nuclear waste from Earth on the moon. It will surely explode and knock the moon out of its orbit and send it flying off into space - along with all 311 inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha.
^^ Uh, we haven't been storing nuclear waste there. Think about it. Why would we store stuff like that at the site of the world's most pristine and paradisaical AIDS colony? Could the world ever recover from such a lose?
Controlled crash, yeah right. More like controlled media exposure. Pretty sure that was a tragic accident, unless they have plans to test machines that pick up millions of pieces of debris, and had another satellite orbiting to read/measure the scatter of debris as their satellite crashed into it...Or they did it on purpose to dig a big hole where they thought certain minerals might be, for future mining!
There has been a moon base since 1999.
Here is some proof.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DF9nDJZrdA
The Chinese were pissed off that they were denied landing clearance. So they took something from Japan's book and tried to komikazi run on the base.
It failed.
But seriously, Why crash it? I am no expert on lunar orbits but I would think that if you can orbit a object for 16 months, you could orbit it indefinitely. If they retrieved the satellite at a later date it may be used again. Think green China!
Somehow I think that the first response of the Chinese was " Oh Sh!t" followed by " We meant to do that". And finally "now quick, draw up some graphics explaining how we executed the crash perfectly".
What no one realizes was that this wasn't even supposed to go to the moon. It was another one of those satellite killer satellites that gained sentience, and committed suicide because it couldn't bear the thought that its only purpose in life was genocide against its own race.
That being said, I wonder if this thing obliterated the Playboy mag that... was it Neil? That one of those astronauts of ours left up there. Or was it a Penthouse? I don't remember.
Neither. It was the owner's manual for the orange VIP Eagle Transporter.
Actually Chang'e was looking for her lover Wugang, who, had an argument with Chang'e earlier on. But somehow Chang'e was so depressed that she comitted suicide. That's the new version of the Chinese folklore.
Yeah I had a car crash but I crashed it perfectly. that's the whole point right.
For those that don't know why China crashed the probe, I will inject a bit of insite.
The way a space program works, is first, try to find out if you can get a probe NEAR the moon. Then try to fly it all the way to the moon and orbit it. After you orbit, then you try to pick where it lands (aka crash it at a precise location). The next step is to send an unmanned vehicle to an exact spot and bring it back (getting there is fine but if you can't get back, you are sunk). Then you try a manned probe to orbit the moon and then come back. Finally you send a manned flight to the moon land collect samples then go back.
Ever wonder why it was Apollo 11 that had the first man to walk on the moon? It isn't as simple as aiming a rocket and shooting...
For those that don't know why China crashed the probe, I will inject a bit of insite.The way a space program works, is first, try to find out if you can get a probe NEAR the moon. Then try to fly it all the way to the moon and orbit it. After you orbit, then you try to pick where it lands (aka crash it at a precise location). The next step is to send an unmanned vehicle to an exact spot and bring it back (getting there is fine but if you can't get back, you are sunk). Then you try a manned probe to orbit the moon and then come back. Finally you send a manned flight to the moon land collect samples then go back.Ever wonder why it was Apollo 11 that had the first man to walk on the moon? It isn't as simple as aiming a rocket and shooting...
and because back then their whole onboard computer was as complex as a digital watch with the little keyboard you can get today.
BS chinese propaganda. They built a cheap spacecraft and it ate a crap sandwich and it died . . .
BS chinese propaganda. They built a cheap spacecraft and it ate a crap sandwich and it died . . .
If China tries to remove the American Flag from the moon. I promise in a months time there will be a million American Flags sticking on the moon so no one can deny a moon landing as people from earth can see all the american flags.
Sounds like China has a dump site
Really anyone who studied the USSR's space program can figure out this was just a BS story they made up.
China, unlike the USSR, can't hide their screw ups. China knows this probe would of been tracked from launch all the way to the moon by radar stations, etc, all over the globe.
Oh and to anyone who thinks we didn't land on the moon, get real and take your meds.
I agreed with Frustrated said. This is part of the experimental process for the next big steps.