China’s Steady Ascent to the Moon: How Beijing Is Rewriting Lunar Geopolitics

Private lunar landing: How Blue Ghost measured the moon's electric and magnetic fields

Robert Grimm of Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), and PI of the Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder (LMS) talks about the Blue Ghost mission.

China’s Steady Ascent to the Moon: How Beijing Is Rewriting Lunar Geopolitics

China’s lunar ambitions have evolved from symbolic flag planting to a systematic push for permanent space infrastructure.

Chinese 3D printing system uses lunar soil to construct habitats

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 02, 2025 A pioneering 3D printing technology developed by Chinese researchers is enabling the creation of lunar structures using only soil collected directly from the Moon, eliminating the need to transport building materials from Earth. Engineers at the Deep Space Exploration Laboratory in Hefei, Anhui province, have built a working prototype of a lunar regolith 3D printer. According to senior eng

Lunar Revolution: China Unveils 3D Printer That Will Build Colonies With Moon Dust! - Economic Scenarios

Imagine a not-too-distant future where humanity not only explores the Moon, but inhabits it. A future where our homes and research bases are not hauled laboriously from Earth, but built directly from what the Moon has to offer. This vision, until yesterday science fiction, is now one step away from becoming reality thanks to a scientific discovery that is about to rewrite the rules of space exploration. Chinese scientists have developed a 3D pri…

China’s Moon Underground: Lava Tube Lurking Robots

China’s Moon exploration program may utilize specialized robots to explore lunar caves. The country has officially completed its first teaching and practice base for the “simulated Moon underground space” program. Research activities were carried out on June 25 at Jingbo Lake in Mudanjiang City of northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. Autonomous exploration “The underground volcanic lava […]