Satellite News

China’s Yutu moon rover suffered a control circuit malfunction in its driving unit, which troubled its dormancy in extremely low temperature, a scientist said according to Xinhua.

Chinese media have confirmed that contact has been established with the country’s first moon rover, Yutu.

China’s first lunar rover, Yutu, has at least partially survived the recent lunar night even though the mechanism designed to protect it from the cold didn’t work as planned. It has been independently confirmed that the spacecraft is at least sending a signal.

China’s Yutu moon rover has experienced a mechanical control anomaly that could be related to the mechanism that protects Yutu from the cold of lunar night. Chinese media, however, did not give technical details of the problem.

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After launch aboard a Chang Zheng 4B, the Chinese-Brazilian CBERS-3 satellite ended up in a wrong orbit and was declared lost. It has likely already re-entered Earth’s atmosphere.

After almost 9 years in space, NASA’s Deep Impact mission has ended. The project team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has reluctantly pronounced the mission at an end after being unable to communicate with the spacecraft for over a month.

Ground controllers have been unable to communicate with NASA’s long-lived Deep Impact spacecraft. Last communication with the spacecraft was on 8 August 2013. Deep Impact mission controllers will continue to uplink commands in an attempt to re-establish communications with the spacecraft.