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    Queqiao-2 relay satellite (Chinese: 鹊桥二号中继卫星; pinyin: Quèqiáo èr hào zhōngjì wèixīng; lit. 'Magpie Bridge 2 relay satellite'), is the second of the communications...
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    Queqiao relay satellite (Chinese: 鹊桥号中继卫星; pinyin: Quèqiáo hào zhōngjì wèixīng; lit. 'Magpie Bridge relay satellite'), is the first of the pair of communications...
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  • Tiandu (redirect from Tiandu-2)
    Program's lunar navigation and communications test satellites based on Queqiao-2 relay satellite technology. Tiandu satellites will perform navigation...
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    China launched its relay satellite, Queqiao-2, to lunar orbit, along with two mini satellites Tiandu 1 and 2. Queqiao-2 will relay communications for the...
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    Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977, as a part of the Voyager program. It was launched on a trajectory towards the gas giants...
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    Chang'e 4 (redirect from Longjiang 2)
    relay satellite, Queqiao, was first launched to a halo orbit near the Earth–Moon L2 point in May 2018. The robotic lander and Yutu-2 (Chinese: 玉兔二号; pinyin:...
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    Hakuto-R Mission 2, also called Resilience, is a robotic lunar landing mission launched on 15 January 2025 at 06:11:39 UTC (1:11:39 am EST, local time...
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    launched its relay satellite, Queqiao-2, in the orbit of the Moon, along with two mini satellites Tiandu 1 and 2. Queqiao-2 will relay communications for...
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  • constellations, which can be partly mitigated. Chang'e 6 Shensuo SVOM Queqiao 2 ""千帆星座"首批组网星成功发射,为什么要打造低轨卫星互联网?". The Paper. 21 August 2024. "CGWIC Successfully...
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    Chandrayaan-2 (pronunciation; from Sanskrit: Chandra, "Moon" and yāna, "craft, vehicle") is the second lunar exploration mission developed by the Indian...
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    program being named after the Chinese goddess of the moon, the Queqiao and Queqiao-2 relay satellite is named after the "bridge of magpies" from the...
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    N' Asia Spaceflight [@CNSpaceflight] (24 November 2022). "Update: 2024 Queqiao-2 data relay 2025 Chang'e-6 lunar sample return from far side 2026 Chang'e-7...
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    Mission 2 (ispace Inc.) Blue Ghost M1 (Firefly Aerospace) Chandrayaan-2 (ISRO) Hera (ESA) Tiandu-1 and 2 (CNSA) Queqiao relay satellite (CNSA) Queqiao-2 relay...
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    beyond the Sun's heliosphere. It was launched 16 days after its twin, Voyager 2. It communicates through the NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) to receive routine...
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    and the first landing on any extraterrestrial body was performed by Luna 2, which intentionally impacted the Moon on 14 September 1959. The far side...
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    them. The spacecraft made several flybys of Europa (8), Callisto (4) and Io (2). On each flyby of the three moons it encountered, the spacecraft collected...
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  • on 1 June 2024, the Chang'e 6 lander/ascender, with the support of the Queqiao-2 relay satellite, descended from its 200 kilometer (124 miles) orbit altitude...
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    launch anomaly". SpaceNews. Retrieved 14 March 2024. "China launches Queqiao-2 relay satellite to support moon missions". Space.com. 20 March 2024. Retrieved...
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  • Two small satellites, 61 kg Tiandu-1 and 15 kg Tiandu-2, will be launched together with Queqiao-2 in 2024 to test technologies for a future lunar navigation...
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    Dimensions: Length 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in), width 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in), height 3.15 m (10.3 ft) Width with solar arrays deployed: 6.17 m (20.2 ft) Power: Two solar...
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    halo orbit about Earth-Moon L2 Arrival: November 2022 Institution: JAXA Queqiao-2 Mission: lunar orbiter serving as communications satellite for Chang'e...
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    N' Asia Spaceflight [@CNSpaceflight] (24 November 2022). "Update: 2024 Queqiao-2 data relay 2025 Chang'e-6 lunar sample return from far side 2026 Chang'e-7...
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  • Phi-Sat-2 (also known as ɸ-Sat-2) is an Earth observation CubeSat mission from the European Space Agency (ESA) capable of running AI apps directly on board...
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    Hayabusa (redirect from Hayabusa Mark 2)
    would have been the first hopping space rover. The Soviet mission Phobos 2 also encountered a malfunction while attempting to deploy a hopping rover...
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  • Tranche 0 Flight 1 Tracking Layer infrared imaging satellites that launched on 2 April 2023. After the launch of Starlink Group 7-16, only 20 of a batch of...
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    original on 2 November 2023. Retrieved 3 November 2023. Miller, Katrina (2 November 2023). "NASA's Lucy Mission Set Its Sights on 1 Asteroid. It Found 2. – On...
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    Yutu-2 (Chinese: 玉兔二号; pinyin: Yùtù Èrhào) is the robotic lunar rover component of CNSA's Chang'e 4 mission to the Moon, launched on 7 December 2018 18:23...
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    January 15, 2025, and successfully soft-landed on the lunar surface on March 2, 2025, at 08:34 UTC. With this achievement, Firefly Aerospace became the first...
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    a Pragyan lunar rover, as replacements for the equivalents on Chandrayaan-2, which had crashed on landing in 2019. The spacecraft was launched on July...
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    (180 lb) of scientific instruments. The rover is 2.9 m (9 ft 6 in) long by 2.7 m (8 ft 10 in) wide by 2.2 m (7 ft 3 in) in height. The main box-like chassis...
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