China has three new projects for lunar space situational awareness (SSA) that will increase its ability to observe progress on the Moon and detect changes in the surrounding volume. This brief report is an update to prior research on China’s ground and space-based systems for SSA beyond geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO). That paper described different Chinese capabilities for tracking known and scanning for unknown objects beyond GEO, capabilities which China is also expanding and will be discussed elsewhere.
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