A rocket carrying Queqiao-2 blasts off from Wenchang Space Launch Site in Hainan, China, March 20, 2024.
hina launched a lunar satellite designed to play a critical role in its competition with the U.S. to be the leader in exploration of the moon.
The 1.2-ton satellite is necessary to ensure communication for Chang’e-6, a Chinese spacecraft scheduled to travel to the far side of the moon in the first half of this year. China in 2019 became the first and so far only country to land on the moon’s far side. The follow-up Chang’e-6 mission will be the first to attempt to collect samples from there and return them to Earth.
The country’s state-owned space contractor China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. will conduct almost 70 launches, with the rest expected to be done by Chinese space startups. Premier Li Qiang identified commercial spaceflight as a major emerging industry in his report to China’s National People’s Congress in early March.
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