22 October 2020
Infographics released by CGTN show that the number of China's space launches has increased over the recent years. Another diagram shows China's breakthroughs in advancing space infrastructure. Major plans for China's future space activities involve more lunar and Mars missions, as well as new types of carrier rockets. China aims to become a leading space power in the world by 2045, according to a route map drawn up in 2018 by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
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Annex: CGTN's interactive page on China's Five-Year Plans

24 October 2020
The Chang'e 4 lander and the Yutu 2 rover have been switched to dormant mode for the 23rd lunar night after working stably for the 23rd lunar day, according to CNSA's Lunar Exploration and Space Programme Centre. The lander was switched to dormant mode on 23 October at 21:40 h BJT as scheduled, and the rover, at 12:00 h BJT the same day, said the centre. As of 24 October, the Chang'e 4 lunar probe had been on the far side of the Moon for 660 Earth days and the rover has travelled 565.9 m.
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26 October 2020
China successfully sent a group of new remote-sensing satellites into orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province late in the evening on the 26 October. Belonging to the Yaogan-30 family, the satellites were launched by a Long March-2C carrier rocket at 23:19 Beijing Time. The satellites have entered the planned orbits and will be used for electromagnetic environment detection and related technological tests. Also on board the rocket was the Tianqi-6 satellite belonging to the Tianqi constellation.
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27 October 2020
The BBC published a story by Kavita Puri about the Chinese scientist who helped not one but two superpowers to reach the Moon but his story is remembered in only one of them.
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