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Chinese Lunar Exploration Program

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Chang'e 4
Chinese lunar lander
Chang'e 5
Chinese lunar lander
Chang'e 3
lunar exploration mission operated by the China National Space Administration
Chang'e 1
Chinese lunar orbiter
Chinese Lunar Exploration Program
Chinese lunar space program
Chang'e 2
Chinese Moon orbiter
Chang'e 6
Chinese uncrewed lunar expedition
Yutu
Chinese lunar rover
Chang'e 5-T1
Chinese lunar orbiter
Ma Xingrui
Communist Party Secretary of Xinjiang
Yutu-2
Yutu-2 () is the robotic lunar rover component of CNSA's Chang'e 4 mission to the Moon, launched on 7 December 2018 18:23 UTC, it entered lunar orbit on 12 December 2018 before making the first soft landing on the far side of the Moon on 3 January 2019. Yutu-2 is currently operational as the longest-lived lunar rover after it eclipsed (on 20 November 2019) the previous lunar longevity record of 321 Earth days held by the Soviet Union's Lunokhod 1 rover.
Queqiao-1
'''Queqiao relay satellite''' (), is the first of the pair of communications relay and radio astronomy satellites for the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) launched the Queqiao relay satellite on 20 May 2018 to a halo orbit around the Earth–Moon L2 Lagrangian point Queqiao is the first communication relay and radio astronomy satellite at this location.
Mengzhou spacecraft
Chinese crewed space capsule under development
Chang'e 7
planned Chinese lunar exploration mission
International Lunar Research Station
planned Russian-Chinese lunar base
Chang'e 8
planned Chinese lunar exploration mission
Queqiao-2
'''Queqiao-2 relay satellite''' (), is the second of the communications relay and radio astronomy satellites designed to support the fourth phase the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, after Queqiao-1 launched in 2018. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) launched the Queqiao-2 relay satellite on 20 March 2024 to an elliptical frozen orbit around the Moon to support communications from the far side of the Moon and the Lunar south pole.
Lanyue lunar lander
The Lanyue () lander, formerly known as the China crewed lunar surface lander () or simply as the lunar surface lander (), is a spacecraft under development by the China Academy of Space Technology. The purpose of the lander is to carry two astronauts to the lunar surface and to return them to lunar orbit after a set period of time. The lander's initial lunar-landing attempt is envisioned to occur by 2030.