China will launch the Chang’e 6, 7 and 8 missions (Credit: Reuters)
China will use 3D printing technology to construct buildings on the Moon, the official China Daily reported on Monday, as Beijing tightens plans for a long-term lunar habitat.
China will use 3D printing technology to construct buildings on the Moon, the official China Daily reported on Monday, as Beijing solidifies plans for a long-term lunar habitat.
In 2020 the Chinese lunar mission, Chang’e 5, named after the mythical Chinese goddess of the moon, an unmanned probe carried back to Earth China’s first lunar soil samples. China, which made its first lunar landing in 2013, plans to land an astronaut on the Moon by 2030.
Between now and then, China will launch the Chang’e 6, 7 and 8 missions, with the latter tasked with seeking reusable resources on the Moon for long-term human habitation.
The Chang’e 8 probe will investigate the environment and mineralogical composition at the site, and also determine whether technologies such as 3D printing can be deployed on the lunar surface, the China Daily quoted Wu Weiren, a scientist at China National . Space Administration.
“If we want to stay on the Moon for a long time, we need to set up a station using materials from the Moon,” Wu said.
Chinese media reported earlier this month that China wants to start building a lunar base in five years using soil from the Moon.
A robot tasked with making “lunar clay bricks” will be launched during the Chang’e 8 mission around 2028, according to an expert at the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
In recent years, the race to set foot on the Moon has intensified, especially with the United States.
This month, NASA and the Canadian space agency named four astronauts for the Artemis II mission in late 2024, which would be the first manned fly-by of the Moon in decades.
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