China upgrades deep space monitoring network for Mars mission – Xinhua | English.news.cn – Xinhua

XI’AN, July 17 (Xinhua) — China’s Xi’an Satellite Control Center announced on Friday it has built a super-strong deep space monitoring network to support the country’s first Mars exploration.
As scheduled, China plans to launch its Mars probe Tianwen-1 between late July and early August. Once the probe was sent into the Earth-Mars transfer orbit, the control center’s two monitoring stations, in Kashgar of northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and Jiamusi, in northeastern Heilongjiang …

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