China Mars

• China successfully lands unmanned spacecraft on Mars: state media

  The Tianwen-1 spacecraft landed on a site on the Southern Utopia Plain, making China the third space-faring nation after the United States and Russia to land on the Red Planet.

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  May 14, 2021
  
• China successfully launches fast-tracked mission to land rover on Mars

  The Tianwen-1 launch comes as the United States plans to launch Perseverance, its most sophisticated Mars rover ever, next week.

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  Jul 23, 2020
  
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• Spacecraft gets ready for Mars launch: NASA, China and UAE hope to find signs of life

  The U.S., for its part, is dispatching a six-wheeled rover the size of a car, named Perseverance, to collect rock samples that will be brought back to Earth for analysis in about a decade.

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  Jul 13, 2020
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• China on schedule for launch this year of 2nd space station

  China recovered an experimental probe, marking another milestone in its increasingly ambitious space program that envisions a mission to Mars by the end of the decade.

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  Jun 26, 2016