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Saturday, May 15, 2021
CONTINUITY: Chinese Tianwen-1 (天问) Lands on Mars
The Big Red Screen of Mars landing success for Zhurong rover, coordinates and CNSA administrator Zhang Kejian. [BACC] pic.twitter.com/H3rlcvVavs
— Andrew Jones (@AJ_FI) May 15, 2021
In vintage communist style, no streaming video or other contemporary coverage was provided of the landing, only this Stalinesque announcement after the (claimed) success, with the co-ordinates. Independent radio hobbyists have been tracking the telemetry signal from the lander and inferring mission events from its Doppler shift as it performed its final maneuvers and encountered Mars.
#Tianwen1 orbiter Doppler data on landing day free for you to study. Format MJD, Freq, sigma (relative intensity), COSPAR site (49.4348N, -123.668W, 40m) https://t.co/7A8PQyPIR1 pic.twitter.com/dtZmFzprXN
— Scott Tilley (@coastal8049) May 15, 2021
Posted at May 15, 2021 10:11