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Snapshot 2026-09-06
Active filters: China National Space Administration
Open the explorerNot carried: China National Space Administration.
Launched 2025
Active missionChina's active Tianwen-2 mission launched on 29 May 2025 from Xichang on a Long March 3B Y110. It has begun scientific exploration of asteroid 2016 HO3; the mission plans to return an asteroid sample to Earth before continuing to main-belt comet 311P.
Launched 2024
Completed · SuccessChina's Chang'e 6 returned the first samples from the lunar far side after landing in the South Pole-Aitken Basin.
Launched 2024
Active missionChina's Queqiao 2 relay satellite entered its target highly elliptical orbit around the Moon and supported Chang'e 6's far-side landing.
Launched 2024
Active missionChina's Tiandu-1 communication and navigation technology test satellite entered lunar orbit and completed a 3:1 Earth-Moon resonant-orbit maneuver.
Launched 2024
Completed · SuccessChina's Tiandu-2 communication and navigation technology test satellite entered lunar orbit and successfully carried out Earth-Moon transmission and routing experiments.
Launched 2020
Completed · SuccessChina's first lunar sample return: a lander that drilled and scooped regolith in Oceanus Procellarum and delivered 1.731 kg of it to Earth.
Launched 2020
Active missionTianwen 1 (formerly Huoxing 1) is a Chinese Mars mission comprising a lander/rover and orbiter that launched on 23 July 2020 and reaches Mars in February 2021. The scientific objectives of the mission are to study martian topography and geology, characterize the soil and its water-ice content, determine the composition of the surface material, profile the martian ionosphere, climate, and environment, and constrain the gravity and magnetic fields and the interior structure. The lander and the Zhurong rover separated from the orbiter and made a landing in the Utopia Planitia region on 14 May 2021. No page fetched for this record states the mission's state later than the August 2025 capture it cites.
Launched 2018
Active missionThe first soft landing on the far side of the Moon, which delivered the Yutu-2 rover into Von Karman crater.
Launched 2014
Completed · SuccessA Chinese circumlunar test flight that proved the high-speed atmospheric re-entry needed for a later lunar sample return.
Launched 2013
Completed · SuccessThe first soft landing on the Moon in 37 years, which delivered the Yutu rover to Mare Imbrium.
Launched 2011
Failed · FailureThe Yinghuo-1 ("Firefly") mission is a Chinese Mars orbiter scheduled to launch in tandem with the Russian Phobos-Grunt mission in November 2011. The primary scientific objectives of the mission are to study martian space environmental structure, plasma distribution and other characteristics; the solar wind-atmosphere coupling and energy deposition processes, martian ion escape processes and mechanisms, the regional gravity field of Mars, and to perform martian and Phobos surface imaging. Yinghuo-1 was stacked on a common booster below Phobos-Grunt, and the Phobos-Grunt/Yinghuo-1 spacecraft did not perform its scheduled burn to begin its trajectory to Mars and could not leave Earth orbit.
Launched 2010
Completed · SuccessChina's second lunar orbiter, which mapped the Moon at higher resolution before leaving it to fly past the asteroid Toutatis.
Launched 2007
Completed · SuccessChina's first lunar mission, which imaged the whole Moon before being sent to a controlled impact on the surface.