After some reading (including a trip down my memory lane of a Grade 7 me reading Spirit/Opportunity mission updates, which kick-started me in following real-time news of space missions) - this is indeed a much longer silence than we usually see.https://twitter.com/cosmos4u/status/1393905009658671104 …
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What's going on? I'm afraid I'm as clueless as all of you, but my impression from following Chinese spaceflight's that "state media PAO on vacation" might be as plausible of a reason as "rover/lander problems" or "orbiter missed downlink; awaiting
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I have just seen another theory, based on slides from an official presentation around 2 years ago, that UHF data linkage w/ the TW-1 orbiter isn't even planned until Sol 3. This probably will be after the orbiter lower its orbit in a few hours from now per earlier reports.
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This seems strange to me since this would mean only direct-to-Earth X-band links are usable right now, not a situation that I would like to be immediately after landing. I'm not sure why didn't they try to get a thumbnail or two back to Earth first.
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BTW it seems the only other orbiter able to help out w/ TW-1 is ESA's Mars Express, which per a rumor will perform the 1st comm session tomorrow.
@ESA_TGO is probably unusable due to its UHF package being NASA's ELECTRA (MEX's from in-house for Beagle 2)https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/1286233914814672899?s=19 …
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