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Chang'e 3

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Search complete. 4 mentions across 4 episodes found for "Chang'e 3".

Sep 4, 2026

speaker_0HOST
3:27
2011, Xinhua 1, the Mars probe.
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3:29
2013, Chang'e 3.
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3:39
2015, Dark Matter Particle Explorer.
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3:43
2016, Quantum Experiment at Space Scale, the
JohnHOST
15:08
Number two was the United States of America with Ranger 4 in 1962.
JohnHOST
15:17
The third country was China in 2013 with Chang'e 3.
JohnHOST
15:24
The fourth country was India with Chandrayaan 3 in 2023.
JohnHOST
15:30
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

speaker_4NARRATOR
70:36
Plausible in principle, unproven in practice, and subject to the same compounding environmental stresses that degrade everything else.
speaker_4NARRATOR
70:43
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.
speaker_4NARRATOR
70:56
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.
speaker_4NARRATOR
71:07
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.
Michael StrangeHOST
47:17
And I'm not saying that's the truth.
Michael StrangeHOST
47:18
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.
Michael StrangeHOST
47:33
So, I mean, let's put it this way.
Michael StrangeHOST
47:36
I wouldn't be shocked if there was something on the backside of the moon that blew our minds.

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