China successfully launches first Mars mission

[FairAndUnbiased]

How's that?

Here is a list of all Mars missions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_Mars

Here is the only one launched by Japan, and it failed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nozomi_(spacecraft)

 

[lonelyman]

That said, the main parts of deep space exploration: the launch, orbital control, deep space communication and control, the soft landing. Except the launch of that tiny little rocket with the tiny little device on board(mainly fuel on it to reach the orbit which takes 4 month.lol..), they got nothing, everything beyond is handed over to NASA ... NASA did not give them the soft landing tech though, and we see what happened...

Their 640 ton rocket GSLV_Mark_III, payload can't even match our 425 ton Long march 3 series in the 1990s, despite 200 tons heavier... LMAO... While our 878 ton Long March 5 has twice the payload to weight ratio... This is why they have to circulate the earth for 4 months using the fuel on board the probe... If we want to reach Mars that way, we could do it in the 90s, if we do not consider the NASA part, which is not done by indians anyway...lol...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSLV_Mark_III
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_March_3B
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_March_5

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BTW, india is still try to build a track ship like this which we have since 1970s...
Yuanwang 2: in service since 1978:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_Wang-class_tracking_ship

hinduvta rss sangris boast they are the only one succeeded in first try , despite 13kg payload and NASA did for them - tracking, communication and insertion

lol

 

[OIO]

Wish everything will work as expected!

 

[Figaro]

Hopefully the Mars Rover does not end up like the Jade Rabbit in 2014 ... it was a miracle that the Jade Rabbit even ended up sending data back after that glitch.

 

[Daniel808]

hinduvta rss sangris boast they are the only one succeeded in first try , despite 13kg payload and NASA did for them - tracking and insertion

lol

They are good at boasting

They even cannot send a man to space for couple hours, while China will put their Taikonauts (Astronauts) Permanently on their Space Station (CSS) in the next few months

 

[Beast]

Hopefully the Mars Rover does not end up like the Jade Rabbit in 2014 ... it was a miracle that the Jade Rabbit even ended up sending data back after that glitch.

Even it ended like jade rabbit 1 one is good. At least it makes a successful soft landing and did roll out, do analysis and take photo. Although, it's is short lived.

Not even Soviet or Russia achieve that feat for Mars.

 

[Daniel808]

Hopefully the Mars Rover does not end up like the Jade Rabbit in 2014 ... it was a miracle that the Jade Rabbit even ended up sending data back after that glitch.

They already fix the glitch with Yutu 2 Rover in 2018.
Anyway, Mars climate is much friendlier compare to Moon Climate.

So, I have big optimism for this mission.
Wish all the best

 

[Han Patriot]

Hopefully the Mars Rover does not end up like the Jade Rabbit in 2014 ... it was a miracle that the Jade Rabbit even ended up sending data back after that glitch.

It's amazing Yutu 1 managed to survived few years even while immobilized, the electronics didn't fry even when they can't close the panels and hibernate

 

[PeacefulWar]

Apart from this launch, which is worthy of congrats, I often think what kind of creatures we are.
God gave us this paradise, and want to find places to live, where even oxygen is absent.

Think in this way: maybe God has prepared us many other paradises, God ask us to find them by ourselves this time.

2. Only 90 days of operation seems very low. Isn’t it nuclear powered?

You can't be serious, are you?

 

[dbc]

You can't be serious, are you?

Sure Curiosity rover launched in 2011 is still working because its nuclear powered.

Engineers installed the plutonium power source on NASA's Curiosity rover Thursday, adding the final piece to the complex robot before its Nov. 25 blastoff to Mars.The Mars rover's generator will produce power over at least 14 years. The rover's baseline mission is expected to last approximately two years on the surface of Mars.

https://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av028/111117mmrtg/

 

[PeacefulWar]

Sure Curiosity rover launched in 2011 is still working because its nuclear powered.

Engineers installed the plutonium power source on NASA's Curiosity rover Thursday, adding the final piece to the complex robot before its Nov. 25 blastoff to Mars.The Mars rover's generator will produce power over at least 14 years. The rover's baseline mission is expected to last approximately two years on the surface of Mars.

https://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av028/111117mmrtg/

Good to know, thanks.
Not the "nuclear power" I imagined orignally.

News only mention solar power on Tianwen-1. So I guess it don't have RTG.

 

[Daniel808]

I haven’t followed this program a few questions:

1.why use a ramp to drive off the landing craft? It’s another point of failure, why not just gently drop the rover on the planets surface?
2. Only 90 days of operation seems very low. Isn’t it nuclear powered?
3. Is it going to pick a landing site using onboard sensors or is the landing site preprogrammed?

1. Because they want to land the Lander also (The lander itself have many Scientific Instruments too), If they can land 2 (Lander and Rover) in one Go, why need 2 different landing approach?

2. 90 days is minimum target of Operation, as long as the Rover alive it will be keep roving in Mars to the distant future. It Fully Solar Powered. Just like their Yutu 2 Rover on the Far-side of the moon, programmed only 90 days, but still alive and roving across the moon until this date.

3. Both


I need to remind you, your indian logic cannot match The Technology that China have today. That's why you confuse and accusing them failure @dbc

 

[dbc]

1. Because they want to land the Lander also (The lander itself have many Scientific Instruments too), If they can land 2 (Lander and Rover) in one Go, why need 2 different landing approach?

2. 90 days is minimum target of Operation, as long as the Rover alive it will be keep roving in Mars to the distant future. It Fully Solar Powered. Just like their Yutu 2 Rover on the Far-side of the moon, programmed only 90 days, but still alive and roving across the moon until this date.

3. Both


I need to remind you, your indian logic cannot match The Technology that China have today. That's why you confuse and accusing them failure @dbc

thank you for Your valuable input.

 

[bolo]

the rover will only deploy on april..

Thanks for the correction.

 

[fitpOsitive]

Report for advocate of genocide of human race.

Beast, you are cute.