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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>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/4/2026 10:03 PM, Alex Fraser via
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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>
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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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