China abruptly postpones ambitious Chang’e-7 lunar mission launch
The postponement reflects a launch window that opens only once or twice a year, officials said, and the mission aims to drill for lunar water ice.
- China has postponed the launch of its Chang'e-7 lunar mission because the probe does not meet the launch conditions for this year.
- The China Manned Space Agency decided the postponement after a comprehensive assessment, citing principles of prudence, reliability, and absolute mission success.
- The Chang'e-7 mission was planned to explore the moon and search for water ice, with preparations conducted at the Wenchang Space Launch Site on Hainan island.
- The spacecraft was initially scheduled to launch in the coming days from the Wenchang launch site but has now been delayed.
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China built Chang’e‑7 to place a rover and hopping probe near the Moon’s south pole, probably close to Shackleton Crater, where the hopper would venture from sunlight into a permanently shadowed cold trap and search for ice that may have survived since long before animals appeared on Earth.
China has built Chang’e‑7 around a boundary only a small machine may be able to cross: from lunar ground selected partly for sunlight into a crater interior where direct sunlight never arrives. The mission is more than a rover. Its main spacecraft comprises an orbiter, lander, rover and mini-flying probe, usually described as a hopper. The surface elements are intended for the Moon’s south-polar region, and Chinese mission papers increasingly pl…
China calls off the Chang'e 7 Moon shot until at least 2027
China called off its most ambitious Moon mission the day before it was due to fly. The announcement runs to a single sentence. Chang’e 7 does not meet the conditions for launch, the China Manned Space Agency said on Sunday. It cannot go ahead in this year’s scheduled window. It gave no reason. What the […] This story continues at The Next Web
China postpones Chang'e-7 mission to the lunar south pole
The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) has postponed the launch of the Chang'e-7 automated mission. The mission will not launch before the current launch window closes, although the agency has not specified the exact cause of the delay. Typhoon Narra, detected near the Wenchang Space Launch Site where the Long March-5 carrier rocket was scheduled to depart, is a likely factor. Other constraints affecting the timeline include flight trajectories, l…
WENCHANG (CHINA) (XINHUA/ITALPRESS) The Chinese lunar probe Chang'e-7 does not meet the conditions of launch, which therefore will not be possible during the window scheduled for this year, said yesterday the China Manned Space Agency. The evaluation was conducted in compliance with the principles of prudence, reliability and absolute success of the mission, said the agency. (ITALPRESS). -Photo Xinhua
Shocking moon shot setback throws the space race into chaos — with no comment from Washington
The thought of China making it to the moon likely left a lot of Americans with an uneasy feeling.To make matters worse, the communist giant was primed to make a first-of-its-kind discovery.China's boots-on-the-ground mission was set for 2030.The China National Space Administration's Chang'e‑7 has taken aim at the moon's south pole, where the darkest and most barren parts of the surface are located. Particularly, China has focused on the Shacklet…
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