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I hear they only planned for 90 days. Perhaps they also expected gusts of wind to clean the Rover as it did Perseverance, Opportunity, Spirit, Curiosity.  They plan to check under the ground for water-ice and detection of permafrost in Utopia Planitia another planned mission might bring a 3-D printer to use material to build / print new objects although that might be a Chang'e Moon mission using lunar regolith, its difficult to say if China will chose one as priority over the other, the Mars or Moon...or Maybe they have their eye on both worlds.

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wow you last visited and posted in 2015, please do not wait so long...

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Hi SpaceNut
I think something happened to the search at google and other sites as this forum site rarely shows in searchlinks, I'm not sure if that's a mistake on their side but now I use other alternative search engines these days trying to get away from BigTech censorship. I also had the older offline forum site on bookmark, its possible you lost a lot of old users when the older ikon board went down.

There are rumors online on social media sites like youtube twitter the Mars rover - Zhurong will communicate with either Mars Express or one of the NASA orbiters. I'm not sure if this is true or just a rumor about linking to to other Orbiters, but some of the media accounts seemed to link to aircraft industry and ESA. There are a lot of clips from Chinese media now being translated and mirrored on other online accounts. A site Spacenews has a report on the Rover.
https://spacenews.com/chinas-zhurong-ma … -planitia/
'Zhurong is equipped with six science payloads, including a laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy instrument for analysing surface elements and minerals, panoramic and multispectral imagers, a climate station, magnetometer and a ground-penetrating radar.
It aims to return data on potential water-ice deposits, weather, topography and geology, complementing science carried out by missions from other space agencies.'

There is some political thing at play, China could get could PR for the landing but China spacenews isnt on the media of the West that much, China is also not on the ISS, there is an exclusion policy by the Congress and Senate and exceptions can and have been granted by Congress on a case-by-case basis.

Also there is a social media account following the Rover
https://twitter.com/MarsZhurong/status/ … 7317857283
' Landing coordinates confirmed. 109.9E, 25.1N.  '

The rumors I read are bandlink it might be ok slow telemetry but not for images yet...
another Account called C Yang claims the orbiter will change orbit and a more high speed bps transmission will be established

bandwith and high speed comms seems to always be some kind of issue with these missions to the outer planets
Maybe future concepts like Laser Communication or other forms of Transmission will be used by the Space Agencies of the Future?

U.S. senator: China landing on Mars a reminder ‘we don’t own space anymore’
https://sciencemetro.com
https://www.earthspacehumanity.com

As China and more players begin to deploy assets in space, King said the United States should push for a global agreement on norms of behavior. “It’s in everybody’s interest,” he said. “Ships pass each other on the right. We need standards so we don’t have chaos.”

There is also news that China now Considers Voyager-like Mission to Neptune or to go out to the Heliosphere or KBO objects like New Horizon.
I think the news media calls it by the IHP name given at a science conference or calls it 'Interstellar Express' mission.

EDIT...
i see you already posted a news item on the link up in the other thread so its probably a true story

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The Chinese mission went to L point 1. Lagrange points are positions in space where objects sent there tend to stay put. At Lagrange points, the gravitational pull of two large masses precisely equals the centripetal force required for a small object to move with them. Sun–Earth L1 is suited for making observations of the Sun–Earth system, Sun–Earth L2 is a good spot for space-based observatories, especially helpful for infrared astronomy and observations of the cosmic microwave background. The three collinear Lagrange points (L1, L2, L3) were discovered by Leonhard Euler a few years before Joseph-Louis Lagrange discovered the remaining two L4 and L5. The Planet Mars, Saturn's moon Tethys and Neptune have Natural objects at Lagrange points.

China's moon-sampling Chang'e 5 probe beams home eerie images from deep space

https://www.space.com/china-chang-e-5-m … ace-images

Chinese scientists have said that Chang'e 5 may head to new targets after completing its tests at Sun-Earth Lagrange point 1.

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For Mars_B4_Moon re #29

Thank you for the link to the article about the continuing voyage of Chang'e 5 and particularly the L1 visit!

I was happy to discover that the Wikipedia editors are on top of this news:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_o … nge_points

Chang'e is included in the list of probes at or planned for L1

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I suspect Chinese are already testing Mars tech on the Moon. Here is some of the coverage of their Lunar mission. http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=9814 Inside their Moon Rover they had a Lunar Micro Ecosystem, a kind of Biodome which tested if life or any kind of growth could exist on the Moon they tested cottonseed, potato, rapeseed, as well as fruit fly eggs. There was plant life growing from the seeds but eventually they were destroyed by the Lunar Elements long durations of hot days and deep colds could risk potential future missions but China did learn something interesting from this experiment.

Chang'e 3 was a Lunar Rover mission, the mission might still be Ongoing as the Lander might still be active, the Robot Rover itself was landed on the Moon in  February 2014 it was designed to oeprate for 3 months and ceased to transmit data a little after one year.

Chang'e-4 was the Lunar farside landing mission, the Chang'e 4 was originally built as a backup for Chang'e 3 ...I'm wonder did they also build a back up for their Mars missions?

China's lunar rover on far side of the moon, rolls up to crater's edge.
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=RuEkfKGzFUY
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=RuEkfKGzFUY

China might be growing stuff on the Moon but Space farming has been studied on MIR and the Shuttle and ISS, it is usually a study of plant growth, sometimes insects or the cultivation of crops for food and other materials in space. The Mars Desert Research Station also study this area of science back on our planet Earth.
https://www.popsci.com/military-aviatio … migration/

Hong Kong PolyU professor unveils 'Mars Camera'
http://www.ecns.cn/video/2021-06-04/det … 1129.shtml
This "unimpressive" camera is called "Mars Landing Surveillance Camera" ("Mars Camera").

"Don't look down upon it," said Professor Yung Kai-leung of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), who led the research.

China's first Mars probe Tianwen-1 carrying the Zhurong rover landed on the Red Planet on May 15.

The "Mars Camera" plays the role of an eye to monitor the landing and surrounding environment on the Mars surface.

The Mars Camera is light in weight (around 390g) yet strong and durable enough to withstand the extreme temperature differences of about 150 degrees Celsius experienced during the nine-month journey between Earth and Mars, and a huge impact shock of 6,200G, i.e., 6,200 times the force of Earth's gravity.

Professor Yung has collaborated with the China Academy of Space Technology in deep space exploration for years, developing a "Camera Pointing System" for Chang'e 3 in 2013 and for the historic landing of Chang'e 4 on the far side of the moon in 2019, and the "Surface Sampling and Packing System" for Chang'e 5, China's first lunar sample return mission.

He also mentions a MSR mission in the vid

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Can the U.S. and China Cooperate in Space?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti … -in-space/
Joe Biden urged to work WITH China as NASA warns Xi and Putin threaten 'new space race'
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/ … tation-scn
China embarks on a decade of human space exploration
https://physicsworld.com/a/china-embark … ploration/
The worrisome Chinese space programme
https://www.thestatesman.com/supplement … 89622.html

from twitter feeds

China's space ambitions
https://twitter.com/TheMarsSociety/stat … 4328426501

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The second Moon Rabbit Rover, Chang'e is alive, photo from the lander of the lunar rover
https://twitter.com/SegerYu/status/1423510136308465666

CNSA CLEP recently released new colored photos taken by #Yutu2 Lunar rover. Scientific data of Chang’e lunar exploration project are available to the public at https://moon.bao.ac.cn Yutu2 lunar rover has been working on the far side of the moon for more than 900 days.
https://twitter.com/CNSAWatcher/status/ … 2216053760

https://twitter.com/AJ_FI/status/1420987970786578434
Zhurong update (Sol 75): the rover has continued south after investigating a dune south of the parachute+backshell. Drivers now planning a route through the complex and rock-strewn Martian terrain below. Zhurong has covered 708 metres as of July 30.

https://twitter.com/AJ_FI/status/1424288012477796354
Chinese doing new type of exercise workout on their space station

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A lot of people believe China will again launch nuclear power into space, nobody is really sure in news and social media what they are going to do but there are discussion they could perhaps design a 'Reactor' in space to power a site or maybe they want a 'Space-Tug idea.

China's Tianwen-1 Mars Orbiter Snaps Breathtaking Space Selfies With Red Planet As A Backdrop
https://hothardware.com/news/tianwen-1- … red-planet

The Chinese call on nuclear-armed nations to focus on AI and space as well...'Beijing's call for greater cooperation may be met with skepticism'
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/ … -ai-space/

China's 'Artificial Sun' Has Just Hit a New Nuclear Fusion Milestone
https://interestingengineering.com/chin … -milestone

4 key missions in 2022 include finishing core of space station, sea rocket launches
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science … shing-core

China plans missions to moon's south pole
https://www.moondaily.com/reports/China … e_999.html
'China has approved the fourth phase of its lunar exploration program, including a basic model of a research station built on the moon over the coming decade, according to the China National Space Administration.'

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China’s first Mars rover reveals how weather and ancient water changed the surface of the largest impact basin on Mars.
https://www.space.com/china-zhurong-rov … mars-rocks

Researchers found grooves and etchings on rocks around Zhurong's landing site.

"The rock textures observed at the site thus far may indicate both the presence of physical weathering – for example, impact sputtering, wind erosion and potential freeze–thaw weathering – and aqueous interactions involving salt and brine," the authors said in the paper, adding that the site offers opportunities for follow-up investigations.

"These rock and soil targets provide excellent opportunities to peek into the aqueous history and climate evolution of the northern lowlands, and shed light on the habitability evolution of Mars."

Kirsten Siebach, an assistant professor at the Rice University Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, agrees with the assessment by the Chinese team.

"It looks like there's surface evidence for something like a contraction-expansion process, which can be from brine or a freeze/thaw effect or really significant temperature changes," she told Space.com. "That causes the rocks to kind of flake apart. This is consistent with what we've seen at other landing sites on Mars where the rocks are exposed differently than on Earth."

Chemistry data would help provide more information on what has been going on in the area. Zhurong has a Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) instrument which could fire its laser to create a tiny amount of plasma from the target and analyze its composition. The new paper does not make use of any LIBS data, nor states if it was collected from the rock specimens...

"By having 9 to 10 landing sites across the surface of Mars, we're starting to get a better sense for what processes are relatively or seem to be global," Siebach said.

Siebach notes that the paper contains a lot of valuable information on the physics of the soil and how the ground reacts to the rover driving over it and its landing equipment. "This is actually really important if you want to land there with humans."

China is planning a Mars sample return mission, potentially launching in 2028, but has not yet released information on candidate landing sites.

NASA’s Viking 2 lander set down in northern Utopia Planitia in 1976 among numerous rocks, while Zhurong is operating in much less complicated terrain.

Zhurong has already completed its primary mission of 90 sols. But the rover is continuing its way to the south of its landing site, collecting data as it goes.

Papers on TW-1 and Zhurong in its latest issue but most papers are in Chinese
https://www.sciengine.com/publisher/scp … lug=browse

What it sounds like

sound recordings from Mars rover
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/video/china … /or3jwx7ix

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China to launch Tianwen 2 asteroid-sampling mission in 2025

https://www.space.com/china-tianwen2-as … 025-launch

Ultra high-resolution images of moon surface by Chang’e 5.

https://twitter.com/CNSAWatcher/status/ … 6891115520

Crater Xu Guangqi and Statio Tianchuan - the landing site, viewed from LCAM during obstacle avoidance maneuvers in the Approach Stage
https://twitter.com/TheElegant055/statu … 5275643905

Change5 - Interaction between residual plumes of the lander's YF-36 7500 N main engine and the lunar surface viewed from LCAM during the free-falling stage
https://twitter.com/TheElegant055/statu … 0045859840

The Rover Zhurong is taking damage or dust from the elements of Mars?  The Rover's solar arrays have been tilted up to increase sun exposure and the rover's activities scaled back to preserve power...dust issues?
it has entered a hibernation mode and expected to come out of it in December?

https://twitter.com/PDChina/status/1527469160808058882

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/upO6NTh-AZ7oNLjv0BmNdw

rough translation -

'In order to safely survive extreme weather conditions such as the cold winter of Mars and sandstorms, the "Zhurong" rover has designed a mode of operation such as autonomous hibernation' ' Almost 1 year after landing on Mars, Mars runs near perihelion, the direct sun is in the southern hemisphere, the northern hemisphere had just entered the summer and while now the southern hemisphere has now entered the winter.'
'It will need to survive extreme weather conditions such as the cold winter of Mars and sandstorms'

Map of Mars around Zhurong Mars rover landing spot by Tianwen1 Mars orbiter

https://twitter.com/CNSAWatcher/status/ … 9118747648

China's Mars rover Zhurong goes dormant to survive

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-05-20/C … index.html

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Hydroxl OH

China’s lunar lander finds evidence of native water on moon
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/955945
Our results show the hydroxyl contents of lunar soils in Chang’E-5 landing site are with a mean value of 28.5 ppm, which is on the weak end of lunar hydration features. This is consistent with the predictions from remote sensing and ground-based telescopic data. Laboratory analysis of the Chang’E-5 returned samples also provide critical clues to the possible sources of these hydroxyl contents.

China's lunar lander finds evidence of native water on moon
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-china-lun … ative.html

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Phobos seen by orbiting Tianwen-1 satellite (subtitles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_-Q62Q_eNs

pic
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ziktrq8LcH-g065k3TcYRQ

The idea of Neptune orbiter mission powered by suggests nuclear technology is a path China's space industry.

China to put large telescope in orbit next year
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Chin … r_999.html

China plans to launch a large space telescope next year to fly alongside the Tiangong space station, according to the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology.

The academy said a Long March 5B heavy-lift carrier rocket will deploy the Xuntian space telescope in a low-Earth orbit similar to the track of the Tiangong station as they both circle Earth. The telescope will carry out deep-space observation and research in the frontier fields of science, it said.

The academy is the designer and builder of the Long March 5B, the most powerful Chinese rocket when it comes to carrying capacity for low-Earth orbit. The rocket is central to China's space station program because it is now the only Chinese launch vehicle capable of carrying large space station parts into orbit.

Chinese language article

Images of Zhurong from orbit & other orbital views, plus an image of Perseverance during its last Mars sampling operation
https://news.sina.com.cn/c/2022-03-24/d … 1404.shtml

Lunar Maps Exploration the Chinese Moon Rover & Chang'e program
(Chinese language with pics)
https://www.hljtv.com/news/folder9/2022 … 8897.shtml

Lots of Chinese names on Mars now, Names Approved for Mars: 22 Feature Names Near the Tianwen-1 Landing Site

https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/news/nome … nding-site

There is still some speculation about their future plans, some info has gone public with press releases but some are unsure what the next missions will be, for example there could be a test of 3D printing technology or Chang'e-8 switch something from a previous or future mission, from a testbed of tech to became a unmanned lunar base.

Journalists might already be 'mixing up' missions.

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Insights Into Utopia Basin Revealed By Mars Rover Zhurong

https://astrobiology.com/2022/09/insigh … urong.html

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Xuntian/CSST space telescope will be launched by the end of 2024 at the earliest, according to project scientist Liu Chao in a seminar at Shanghai Planetarium.

https://twitter.com/CNSAWatcher/status/ … 2143633408

China's Chang'e 5 has been in a DRO for over a year now and it continues to emit a strong & stable signal on X-band.
https://twitter.com/coastal8049/status/ … 9495356417

10m-level propellant tank prototype for CZ9
https://twitter.com/CNSAWatcher/status/ … 6956456960

China has made a breakthrough in  plans to acquire capability for nuclear power generation in space. The 801  institute under the 6th Academy of CASC has developed closed Brayton cycle thermoelectric generator technology. US & Russia have this tech already
https://twitter.com/AJ_FI/status/1634517124520484864

Tianwen-2 mission officially approved! It’s planned to return sample from the near-earth asteroid 2016 HO3 back to earth, and also go to the main belt comet 311P for exploration.
https://twitter.com/CNSAWatcher/status/ … 8721396736
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https://m.weibo.cn/status/4874910181365958

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The IHP is an idea for a Voyager-like mission to the outer solar system, there are proposals for joint missions to Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and a Callisto mission, the Tianwen-3 is China’s Mars sample return.

Arab muslims were working with NASA and Japan but then wanted to join with Chinese, it was blocking as potential violation of ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations).

China loses UAE as partner for Chang’e-7 lunar south pole mission
https://spacenews.com/china-loses-uae-a … e-mission/

Hainan commercial launch site under construction
https://twitter.com/CNSAWatcher/status/ … 1991602176

Xuntian is a planned Chinese Survey Space Telescope that will briefly join the Tiangong space station.
https://www.space.com/china-hubble-clas … ce-station

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Mix of methane and oxygen that can be used to power spacecraft on Mars?

hot fire and gimbal test of their 70tf-class methalox engine Longyun

https://twitter.com/CNSpaceflight/statu … 2627329024

Methalox race to orbit klaxon: Landspace has completed final assembly of the second Zhuque-2 rocket

https://twitter.com/AJ_FI/status/1641746942160953346

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The new engine test stand in Tongchuan, Shaanxi, constructed by CASC, has been finished. The facility is the largest in Asia and is intended to aid in the advancement of multiple high-thrust kerolox engines including YF-130, YF-100K, YF-135.

https://twitter.com/CNSAWatcher/status/ … 9582692352

Water found in moon samples from China mission
https://www.foxnews.com/science/water-f … na-mission

Space official calls for China to seize crucial opportunity to establish lunar infrastructure
https://spacenews.com/space-official-ca … structure/

CAS Space has conducted VTVL tests with a small demonstrator. This uses jet engines rather than rocket engines and is for testing the GNC etc for ultimate goal of recovering rocket first stages.

https://twitter.com/AJ_FI/status/1643250489818062848

Hainan Wenchang commercial launch tower 1 is growing fast

https://twitter.com/CNSpaceflight/statu … 6376162305

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China's Mars Rover Finds Recent Evidence of Water Near the Equator

https://www.universetoday.com/161245/ch … e-equator/

China’s Mars Rover Likely Felled By Sand and Dust

https://www.extremetech.com/aerospace/c … d-and-dust

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China to launch 1st-ever sample return mission to moon's far side in 2024

https://www.space.com/china-moon-far-si … ssion-2024

China joins US and Europe in considering 3D-printed Moon bases

https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/25/ … ting_moon/

Satellite imagery taken on 2023-05-24 provides an overview of Wenchang Space Launch Site in China.

https://twitter.com/Harry__Stranger/sta … 4474657792

Transportation of commercial space company LandSpace’s Zhuque-2 Y2 LOX/CH4 methane rocket from Jiaxing, Zhejiang to Jiuquan, Gansu in May. If successful, it will become world’s first methane fuel rocket ever entering orbit.

https://twitter.com/CNSAWatcher/status/ … 0422840320

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An update on access to Chang'e-5 samples by NASA-funded researchers. Glaze said several US investigators were selected for samples; NASA needs to get in touch with them to work out the required governmental agreements.
https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1 … 9076896871

first on-site evidence of water on moon’s surface
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science … ence-water

They already shared Moon samples with France and with Russia

A new type of Basalt, higher than expected Titanium, Water and Prescence of Rare Earth Minerals

video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_1kwlXzfl8

The Chang’e-5 (CE-5) mission, the first return of lunar samples to Earth since the Apollo and Luna missions more than 44 years ago, landed on one of the youngest mare basalt units (1.0-3.0 Ga, based on superposed crater counts), located at middle latitude (~43°N) far from previous landing sites. On December 17, 2020, the sample capsule returned to Earth with 1731 grams of lunar soil collected from the upper few centimeters of the surface and from an ~1 meter-long core drilled into the lunar regolith.
https://www.the-innovation.org/geoscien … 23.100014/
This paper summarizes the main discoveries of the CE-5 samples allocated since July 12, 2021, and measured with state-of-the-art analytical techniques. Physical property studies indicate that the CE-5 soil is mature, with a peak particle size of ~50 µm (in volume), and a particle size distribution similar to the sub-mature and mature Apollo lunar soils (<1 cm). The soil sample contains basalt and mineral fragments, impact melt breccia, agglutinates, and glasses. The basalt fragments can be divided into several petrographic types, likely crystallized from the same lava flow at different depths and cooling rates. The CE-5 basalt Pb/Pb SIMS analyses yielded a crystallization age of 2.030 ± 0.004 Ga, extending the duration of lunar volcanic activity by ~1.0~0.8 Ga. This age, in turn, has helped to calibrate the widely applied lunar crater chronology model. The isotopic ratios of Pb, Nd and Sr indicate that the contribution of a KREEP component in forming CE-5 basalt is limited (<0.5%), excluding high concentrations of heat-producing radioactive elements in their mantle source. The isotope analyses of H, Cl, and S reveal that the mantle source is dry, which cannot account for the prolonged volcanism observed in the CE-5 landing region. A possible explanation is that the CE-5 mantle source contains enhanced clinopyroxene-ilmenite cumulate (~20%), which reduces the melting temperature by ~80°C. The REE-, FeO-enrichment of the CE-5 basalt can be attributed to a low degree of partial melting followed by extensive fractional crystallization. The CE-5 soil has also recorded a two-billion-year history of meteorite impact and solar wind irradiation. A few exotic fragments have been recognized (some with high-pressure silica phases) and are likely ejected from distant lunar highlands. The U-Pb dating of impact glass beads reveals at least 17 main impact events. New space weathering effects, especially the formation of Fe3+, have been found. In situ reflectance spectra and laboratory analyses of CE-5 soil show the presence of water (in the form of H, OH, and/or H2O). The solar wind hydrogen was implanted and concentrated in the outermost rims (<100 nm) of soil grains, with a temperature (hence latitude)-dependent maximum water concentration of up to ~2 wt%.

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China’s Queqiao-2 relay satellite ready to support lunar far side sample mission

https://spacenews.com/chinas-queqiao-2- … e-mission/

China Moon Relay Satellite: Testing Confirms Readiness for Future Lunar Lander Missions (Updated: New Photos)

https://www.leonarddavid.com/china-moon … -missions/

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a test for MSR?

China Successfully Lands Probe on the Moon's Far Side, Starts Collecting Samples

https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/0 … s#comments