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China postponed the Chang'e-7 lunar south pole mission just hours before its Long March 5 was due to fly, blaming Tropical Storm Narra and a narrow sun-angle window over Shackleton Crater — with the next opportunity at least a month, possibly a year, away.
Read the story →After a 13-month, roughly 1-billion-kilometer chase, China's Tianwen-2 has closed to within 20 km of quasi-moon Kamoʻoalewa, kicking off nine months of study before it attempts to grab a piece of what may be a lunar fragment.
China orbited the 1,500-kg Haiyang-2E marine-monitoring satellite on a Long March 4B from Jiuquan, replacing the aging HY-2B and rounding out an operational ocean-observation constellation on the family's 654th flight.
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