03 December 2020
China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, a major space contractor, is striving to use its satellite technology to enable 5G telecommunication service at sea. The State-owned space conglomerate conducted China's first technology demonstration tests using a low-orbiting satellite to enable 5G communication and internet-of-things services on waters off Daishan county in Zhejiang province last month.
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03 December 2020
China plans to launch a new Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging satellite for monitoring Arctic shipping routes. Jointly developed by scientists from Guangzhou-based Sun Yat-sen University and the China Academy of Space Technology, the satellite has been designed to be put in 2022 in a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 720 km and to generate high-quality SAR satellite imagery with 50-meter resolution and 300 km width.
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03 December 2020
On 3 December, at 23:10 BJT, the Chang'e 5 ascend stage, containing the lunar samples, took off from the surface of the Moon. The 3.000 N engine worked for 6 min and placed the ascend unit into lunar orbit. There, it is expected to complete unmanned rendezvous and docking with the orbiter-return section.
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reporting by Our Space

05 December 2020
The next major maneuver for China's Chang'e 5 robotic mission will be an orbital rendezvous and docking between the probe's ascender and re-entry capsule. Previous rendezvous and docking by Chinese spacecraft occurred in low-Earth orbit hundreds of kilometers above Earth with assistance from navigation satellites, but this time it will take place in lunar orbit nearly 380,000 km away without any external guidance.
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