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<font size="5" face="Comic Sans MS">Of course there is a YouTube
channel, which is cool because you can learn to pronounce the
name. <br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/hrnEIvPoTT4?si=_Y6J8rHHHXb0128h"
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/5/2026 12:22 PM, Alex Fraser via
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<font size="5" face="Comic Sans MS">The Chinese are very
ambitious. This "Space News" article gives a view of the
Chinese plan and also describes some of the politics of our two
countries race for space. It is dated 10/23, so any newer info
would be nice...<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://spacenews.com/china-wants-a-lunar-satellite-constellation-to-support-deep-space-missions/">https://spacenews.com/china-wants-a-lunar-satellite-constellation-to-support-deep-space-missions/<br>
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<font size="5" face="Comic Sans MS">I forgot to ask about this
on our Saturday Zoom.<br>
The Chinese have a relay satellite in orbit around the Moon.<br>
</font><font size="5"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queqiao-2"
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The Queqiao 2 was used to support the Chinese probes and robot
rover that landed on the dark side of the Moon.<br>
AFAIK it is still operational. <br>
Will the Artemis 2 interact with this Chinese machine?<br>
How come this isn't mentioned anywhere?<br>
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Details of the </font><font size="5">Queqiao 2's comms are in
the Wikipedia article.</font><br>
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