Chinese Mission to Lunar South Pole

[Unitron48]

Looks like the Lunar South Pole could get to be a busy place starting in 2024: https://www.space.com/china-moon-missio ... ting-water.

"The Chang'e 7 lunar mission is planned to launch around 2024 and will survey the moon from orbit while also landing at and exploring the lunar south pole...engineers are developing a special spacecraft that could detach from a lander and fly or hop to survey nearby craters in search of traces of water ice."

Here's hoping all goes well with all the future Lunar missions (Artemis included). It's time to get back to the Moon!

Dave

[helicon]

A very interesting mission Dave. Thanks for sharing the article.

[Unitron48]

The Chinese have several scheduled, including a sample return mission in 2024: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/l ... uture.html.

Dave