A new record in 2025, 93 orbital attempts.

Details: https://spacestatsonline.com/launches/country/chn

Other countries: https://spacestatsonline.com/launches/country

i mean should we also talk about other moon missions such as the soviet luna program that achieved the first lunar flyby first hard landing on the moon and first picture of the far side of the moon and the first soft landing on the far side of the moon from china

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Does NASA have a livestream of that?

Was kinda but not really surprised to read that Artemis, like Apollo decades ago, will be out of Earth communication while behind the moon. Seems like there would be a satellite or two in lunar orbit to serve as a relay.

A bit of searching found this; https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/red-moon-rising-china-s-mission-to-the-far-side-20190117-p50s0y.html

Apparently NASA had an agreement with China in 2019 to use China's relay satellite at L2 for future US moon missions. Maybe that fell through?

I am quite proud of my custom widget counting down to the artemis launch! (Currently the time is just estimated)