The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
One existing launch pad will be upgraded and a second pad constructed from scratch on the approximately 3,000-acre (1,200-hectare) complex.
In the future, China hopes to send an unmanned mission to the Moon (around 2012), send a sample-return mission to the Moon (2015), and a manned mission to the Moon (possibly by 2017).
China is also hoping to build a space station in the near future.
When China sent its first astronaut (Yang Liwei) into space aboard the Shenzhou 5 spacecraft, in October 15, 2003, it became the third country to do so, following in line behind the former Soviet Union (Russia) and the United States, who both first launched astronauts into space in 1961.
China’s other three spaceports are th Jiuquan, Taiyuan, and Xichang Satellite Launch Centers.
Learn more about the Chinese space program at GlobalSecurity.org’s article “Hainan / Wenchang / Sanya.”
The China National Space Administration (CNSA), China's space agency, was established in April 1993.
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