BEIJING \u2013 China is poised to launch Chang\u2019e-7, its most technologically complex lunar mission to date, in its search for frozen stores of water in permanently shadowed craters near the moon\u2019s south pole.<\/p>\n
The uncrewed mission, named after a mythical Chinese goddess of the moon, will feature the deployment of a robotic lander, rover, and \u201chopping\u201d probe to one of the coldest places in the solar system. It will represent a major step toward Beijing\u2019s long-term goal of building a permanent human presence on the moon, with plans under way for a crewed lunar landing before 2030 and the setting up of a joint research station with Russia by 2035.<\/p>\n
Next week, the Chang\u2019e-7 spacecraft will lift off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in the southern island province of Hainan atop a Long March 5 rocket with payloads that also include an array of scientific instruments such as water analyzers, cameras and radars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING \u2013 China is poised to launch Chang\u2019e-7, its most technologically complex lunar mission to date, in its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[77],"tags":[381,18,19,17,10626,14246,133,451],"class_list":["post-649127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-china","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-moon","tag-rockets","tag-science","tag-space"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}