China has launched a new communications relay satellite to support its moon ambitions in the decade to come. Queqiao-2, or Magpie Bridge-2, lifted off atop a Long March 8 rocket from Wenchang ...

The author is the head of China Lab ... by the relay satellite Queqiao (Magpie Bridge), which facilitated direct communication between Earth and the moon's far side. In 2020, Chang’e-5 collected ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.

China will select taikonauts for its first-ever manned moon landing mission from the current pool that has participated in spaceflight missions to the China Space Station, China's first astronaut ...