Chang'e 3
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Search complete. 4 mentions across 4 episodes found for "Chang'e 3".
Sep 4, 2026
Episode 136: Science – The Bedrock of China’s Space Program
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2011, Xinhua 1, the Mars probe.
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3:29speaker_0HOST
2013, Chang'e 3.
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2015, Dark Matter Particle Explorer.
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2016, Quantum Experiment at Space Scale, the
Outer Space Trivia!
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15:08JohnHOST
Number two was the United States of America with Ranger 4 in 1962.
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15:17JohnHOST
The third country was China in 2013 with Chang'e 3.
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15:24JohnHOST
The fourth country was India with Chandrayaan 3 in 2023.
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15:30JohnHOST
Finally, number five, Japan landed its slim lander in 2024.
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Why Mining the Moon is Worse Than You Think
Sep 1 · 1 Mention
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70:36speaker_4NARRATOR
Plausible in principle, unproven in practice, and subject to the same compounding environmental stresses that degrade everything else.
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70:43speaker_4NARRATOR
China's Chang'e 3 lander and its Yutu rover, which reached the moon in 2013, survived multiple lunar nights using radioisotope heater units, combined with thermal insulation.
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Yutu 2, delivered by Chang'e 4 to the far side of the moon in 2019, has been operating for years, surviving dozens of lunar night cycles.
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These are genuine achievements in thermal survivability, but they were achieved with a rover weighing approximately 140 kilograms, performing light scientific tasks, spending each lunar night in a hibernation mode where it does no useful work.
The Man Named Marvel - Escape Velocity for Conspiracy Culture
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47:17Michael StrangeHOST
And I'm not saying that's the truth.
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47:18Michael StrangeHOST
I'm just saying that it's one of those things where, I think it's the Chang'e 3 mission that went up there and put a rover on the backside of the moon, which, you know, we've had satellites kind of cruise by and look at it, but we haven't really had... you know, rovers or boots on the ground in that space to really find these things.
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47:33Michael StrangeHOST
So, I mean, let's put it this way.
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47:36Michael StrangeHOST
I wouldn't be shocked if there was something on the backside of the moon that blew our minds.