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Chang'e-3 Lunar Rover Landing Slated For 13:40 UTC Saturday

Science · Moon · 2013-12-13 22:32 · posted by timothy · from the easy-does-it dept. · 90 comments

savuporo writes "The Chinese Chang'e-3 probe will be landing on the moon [Saturday], 13:40 UTC. CCTV is likely to carry the event live as they did for initial launch. According to technical overview of the mission scenario and instruments, the landing will be fully autonomous with active landing hazard avoidance, which is the first time this has been attempted on any planetary landing. More real-time updates can be found on Twitter with ChangE3 hash tag and NASASpaceFlight forums live event section."