Moreover, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced at the Friday event that China"s Tianwen-3 planetary exploration mission is scheduled to launch in around 2028 and bring samples from Mars back to Earth around 2031, with five international and Hong Kong and Macao cooperation projects selected to join the mission, according to the Xinhua News Agency.

　　CNSA also officially announced the selected cooperation projects for the Tianwen-3 mission. The orbiter will carry three cooperative payloads: the Mars PEX spectrometer, led by the exploration working group of the Committee on Space Research, to search for traces of life on Mars and detect the mineral composition of the Martian surface; the Mars molecular ion composition analyzer, led by the Macau University of Science and Technology, to study the escape process of the Martian atmosphere; and the laser heterodyne spectrometer, led by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, to detect the profile distribution of water isotopes in the Martian atmosphere and Martian wind fields.

　　The 11th China Space Day also saw China release its first commercial space standard system, aiming to leverage the guiding role of standardization in the development of the space industry and promote high-quality development of commercial space activities, per Xinhua.

　　Wang Yanan, editor-in-chief of Beijing-based Aerospace Knowledge magazine, told the Global Times on Friday that China"s aerospace industry is advancing at an unprecedented speed, and has reached the world"s advanced level in some key fields and yielded fruitful achievements in space exploration.