In 2024, China's space industry celebrated a banner year, achieving a historic milestone with a total of 68 carrier rocket launches. Highlights included the Chang'e-6 mission, which successfully retrieved lunar samples from the far side of the Moon, and the completion of several manned space missions. Furthermore, the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Center embarked on its inaugural operations. As we embark on 2025, China's space endeavors are poised to become even more ambitious, encompassing the Tianwen-2 asteroid exploration mission, the launches of the Shenzhou-20 and Shenzhou-21 manned spacecraft, and the Sino-European collaborative project on the Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction Panorama Imaging Satellite.
