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Landing camera images:

It's official: Chang'e-5 successfully landed on the near side of moon, China's National Space Administration (CNSA) announced. https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-12-01/China-s-Chang-e-5-successfully-lands-on-moon--VSilnSM6J2/index.html Congrats! Now, let's hope for successful soil/rock...

De-orbit should have occured now. CGTN suspend their coverage, at that moment... No further information. Landing descent should be happening right now. EDIT: landing appears to have been postponed to Dec 2, 03:00 BJT EDIT: After editing the above postponed landing time multiple times, I'm now...

Confirmed Lander separation from Orbiter. Later today, the lander will perform two burns to lower the orbit, first to 100x200km, then 15x100 km. Final landing descent will probably occur on December 1, around 15:00 UTC. A nice high-res photo of the spacecraft, the humans in the background a...

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-11/29/c_139551461.htm It has now successfully entered circular orbit. Separation/Landing will probably not take place today at 20:30 UTC though...

Thanks for the update. It appears correct. Sorry for the confusion about the landing date; strange that some creditable news sites claimed a 27 nov as the landing date... Anyway, also, according to this site, https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=CHANG-E-5 Lunar orbit...

Hi all, As probably everyone knows: it launched this week. It's scheduled to land... today [EDIT: New most likely landing date: November 29, 20:30 UTC] [EDIT#2: December 1, around 15:00 UTC] . This historic mission deserves it's own news update thread, doesn't it?! As I was looking for news...

This January had some huge ISS orbital boosts compared to all historical boosts: Cannot find a single news article specifically about this, anyone?

Guys, I didn't really notice it until now, but it's super nice to see you picked up development of SpaceShipOne based on my original addon from 12 (!) years ago! Thank you and I'll make sure to give it a try once I have an opportunity! Kind regards, mcduck

It was nice to watch the live stream! CG SpaceX on this milestone! I was wondering exactly the same. Anyone any info on this? What parts are reused and what parts are new?

True, but it surely looks like it's tipped over when you see the picture. Also the mission manager has mentioned that it's highly sloped or sitting on a side, given the fact part of the panoramic images where only showing the 'sky'. With some imagination, there is also a shadow of the leg itself...

So it looks like it's sitting on it's side? If you look at the picture, the left site clearly look like "up" (blackness of space), shown better when you tilt your head. Unless it's a big shadow of other rocks of course. We're lucky it's still able to send data despite of being tipped over! :)...

To complete the story; yes it has probably bounced off, indicated by the constant fluctuations in solar power strength and radio link. However, after 2 hours (!) these fluctuations stopped. Also the radio link became stable. They speculate that this indeed indicates a 2nd landing, this time...

Media briefing (on live stream) now postponed to 20:00 CET. Besides a status update, it is expected that new images will be released.