China Launches Satellite To Explore Dark Side of Moon (reuters.com)

Posted by msmash on Monday May 21, 2018 @05:25AM from the up,-up,-and-away dept.

China launched a relay satellite early on Monday designed to establish a communication link between earth and a planned lunar probe that will explore the dark side of the moon, the official Xinhua news agency said. From a report: Citing the China National Space Administration, Xinhua said the satellite was launched at 5:28 a.m. (2128 GMT Sunday) on a Long March-4C rocket from the Xichang launch center in the southwest of the country. "The launch is a key step for China to realize its goal of being the first country to send a probe to soft-land on and rove the far side of the moon," Xinhua quoted Zhang Lihua, manager of the relay satellite project, as saying.

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Re:"DARK SIDE OF THE MOON" by cayenne8 · 2018-05-21 05:35 · Score: 5, Interesting

There is no dark side of the moon really....
'matter of fact, it's all dark....thump thump....thump thump....thump thump.....

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Re:I've got a better idea by glenebob · 2018-05-21 06:16 · Score: 3, Interesting

There is no dark side of Detroit. Matter of fact, it's all dark.
It's Pink Floyd jokes all the way down.