13 February 2019
The lander and the rover of the Chang'e 4 probe have been switched to dormant mode for the second lunar night after working stably during its second lunar day, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced on 13 February. The payloads on board including low-frequency radio astronomical instrument, neutron radiation detector, infrared imaging spectrometer and neural atomic detector have been operating smoothly as scheduled. Yutu-2 has driven 120 m. The lander was switched to a dormant mode at 19:00 BJT on 11 February as scheduled, and the rover, Yutu 2, at 20:00 BJT said the CNSA. According to China's Lunar and Deep Space Exploration Center, the rover will be woken up on 28 February and the lander on 1 March.
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13 February 2019
On 12 February, Lu Liangliang gave a presentation on the status of the Chang'e 4 mission at the 56th session of UNOOSA's Scientific and Technical Subcommittee:
"The introduction of Chang'e 4 mission and the vision of future Chinese lunar exploration activities"
http://www.unoosa.org/documents/pdf/copuos/stsc/2019/tech-03E.pdf
Another presentation on the "CSES Mission (China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite): Italy and China in Space" was given by Simona Zoffoli of the Italian Space Agency:
http://www.unoosa.org/documents/pdf/copuos/stsc/2019/tech-01E.pdf

14 February 2019
Yin Juan, a member of the QUESS team who received the annual Newcomb Cleveland Prize in Washington on 14 February night said in an interview with Xinhua that the Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) or Micius would work at least two more years beyond its two-year working lifetime and carry out more international cooperation. In the next two years, the QUESS team is expected to have the inter-continental quantum key distribution experiments with those from Italy, Russia and South Korea.
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15 February 2019
The landing site of China's Chang'e 4 lunar probe has been named "Statio Tianhe" after the spacecraft made the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon last month. Together with three nearby impact craters and one hill, the name was approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), Liu Jizhong, Director of the China Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering Center of the China National Space Administration (CNSA), said at a joint press conference held in Beijing Friday. "Tianhe" is the Chinese word for Milky Way and "Statio" is Latin for base.
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