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xiabonan

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It's a government led experiment that aims to create fully self-sustaining small "living spheres" that might one day be used to construct bases on other planets.

If memory serves me right the place is 99.7% self sufficient, with only very little resources from outside, to maintain the cycle.

Everything is recycled.
 

POKL

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I think the article below fits this thread appropriately.

Russia and China agreed on implementing pilot projects in the area of satellite navigation Tuesday July 15, 2014

Russian non-profit partnership GLONASS and Chinese satellite navigation office agreed on implementing pilot projects in the area of flight safety and safety of navigation. Under the agreement China will place ground stations of GLONASS navigation system in its territory. According to ITAR-TASS, the first project assumes placing a local monitoring and correcting station manufactured by Spektr Research and Production Company at a Chinese airport.

“This navigation, landing and signal monitoring system will provide satellite navigation for flights using area navigation capability and ensure accurate landing approach using two systems – GLONASS and Beidou (China)”, - GLONASS Vice-President Yevgeny Belyanko said.

“The second project will be implemented on a Chinese river, where monitoring and correcting stations processing data provided by GLONASS/Beidou/GPS systems will be used for ship traffic monitoring in order to increase the navigation accuracy”, - he added.

In addition, Russian-Chinese satellite navigation subcommittee is to be established in order to prepare regular meetings between prime ministers and two advisory panels aimed at discussing matters related to standardization and joint development of navigation equipment.

We remind you that in accordance with the decision of Russian Ministry of Transport, Non-profit partnership GLONASS is responsible for development of cooperation between Russia and China in the area of GLONASS and Beidou navigation technologies.

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mr.bean

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if they can do a mission to retrieve the jade rabbit and bring it back it would help tremendously in designing other lunar robots. jade rabbit is immobilized they could examine what went wrong or which mechanical part failed.
 

Equation

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if they can do a mission to retrieve the jade rabbit and bring it back it would help tremendously in designing other lunar robots. jade rabbit is immobilized they could examine what went wrong or which mechanical part failed.

Wast of money, when the Jade Rabbit has been sending large amounts of data that the engineers and scientists can learn from and work on improving the second one.
 

AssassinsMace

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I can tell you with my lack of technical knowledge on the subject what was wrong just by what I read. If the insulation shield from the lunar night also housed the solar panel that required it to open and close... don't do that! The more moving parts, the more likely something will break. The insulation shield shouldn't have had to open and close to protect the rover. That was an unnecessary step that should've been avoided.
 
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