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BEIJING - China is scheduled to have a deep space monitoring network in 2016 to support the country's future space missions, a senior scientist with China's lunar orbiter, Chang'e-2, said Thursday.
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Efforts are being made to upgrade or build deep space monitoring stations in the three locations by equipping them with large-caliber antennas, Qian said.
He added that the upgrading work in Kashgar and Jiamusi will be completed in 2012 to provide monitoring support for China's lunar orbiters, Chang'e-3 and Chang'e-4, while the monitoring station in South America will be created in 2016 to assist in the lunar orbiters' return to Earth.