That's a couple of hours than they originally scheduled. I wonder what caused the change?
The surveillance baseline only has a length of eight hours or so, so they don't have much leeway in actual landing window if they need the touch-down to be visible.
Here's a compilation of latest news ( from yesterday )
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CCTV live stream begins at 11:00 UTC. Landing scheduled for around 13:40 UTC, 14th Dec.
That's a couple of hours than they originally scheduled. I wonder what caused the change?
The surveillance baseline only has a length of eight hours or so, so they don't have much leeway in actual landing window if they need the touch-down to be visible.
Here's a compilation of latest news ( from yesterday )
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/1213091...
Do you have a link to a live stream?
Not yet. Looks like 4 more hours to go for live stream to begin. I'm following this thread for updates:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=33511.0
Edit:
Live stream will be at: http://english.cntv.cn/live/
Planetary Society blog: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/1213091...
Stream is now live, landing should be around 13:40 UTC IIRC.
CCTV have just ( as of 11:30 UTC ) announced live coverage from 20:00 to 22:00 Beijing Time.
link to a live stream:
http://news.cntv.cn/special/videolive/change3/index.shtml