17 July 2020
Xi'an Satellite Control Center announced on 17 July it has built a super-strong deep-space monitoring network to support the China's firt Mars exploration mission - Tianwen 1. Once the probe has entered Earth-Mars transfer orbit, the control center's two monitoring stations, in Kashgar of northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and Jiamusi, in northeastern Heilongjiang Province, will provide monitoring support for it. Efforts have been made to upgrade equipment at the two stations. Since October 2017, the new ground station in the province Neuquén in Argentina's Patagonia region in complementing China's deep-space network. 
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