China's 1st Mars rover and Tianwen 1 orbiter may have gone silent: report

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China's 1st Mars rover and Tianwen 1 orbiter may have gone silent: report
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There's more bad news for China's space agency: It appears that the Tianwen 1 orbiter has also gone quiet. The orbiter initially scouted for landing locations for Zhurong before serving as a communications relay for the rover.

Since then, the Tianwen 1 orbiter has been carrying out its own science program, including"A Beijing-based source said ground control had encountered difficulty when downloading the latest data from the orbiting probe, which is equipped with two cameras," South China Morning Post wrote. Amateur radio operators have even observed that Tianwen 1 ground stations appear to have

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