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China's First Mars Probe Ready To Launch

Posted by timothy on from the kazakhstan-facility-of-space-object-tossing-very-nice dept.

henrypijames writes "At the Shanghai Aerospace Exhibition last week, China's first Mars probe Yinghuo-1 was the main attraction. The newly completed probe will soon be sent to Moscow for some further testing, before a joint launch with Russia's own probe Phobos-Grunt from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan this October."

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  1. How delicious... by PatrickThomson · · Score: 5, Funny

    The story is showing in red on the main page - perhaps reflecting the fear of a red mars in all of us. Oh, wait...

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  2. China's First Mars Probe Ready To Launch by TheCreeep · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If it's going to Moskow for testing, it's not fucking ready to launch now is it?

    Slashdot editors: Read the damn summary at least!

  3. Re:Sounds fine to me by ethogram · · Score: 5, Informative

    I believe Grunt is Russian for Ground and will be a sample return mission from Phobos. The Planetary Society is flying something as well: a long term biological exposure project called Life. I think the idea is to see whether cells can survive long term exposure to the radiation environment of interplanetary space (as opposed to low earth orbit).

  4. It's quite ingenious really. Pure Chinese knowhow by Garbad+Ropedink · · Score: 5, Funny

    I heard about this probe. It's really a marvel of engineering. Looking at it you can see it's the next phase in Chinese innovation. The probe they're sending is designed to go to mars, steal the American probe, then bring it back to China. After reverse engineering the American probe, the Chinese then launch their new probe back to mars.

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