Provider: China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
Mission
Type: Planetary Science
Orbit: Lunar Orbit
Pad: 101, Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China
Mission Description
Chang'e 8/CE-8 is scheduled to launch in 2028, including a lander, a rover and a legged robot. The mission will land in the South Pole regions of the Moon to study lunar surface environment around the South Pole and experimenting with resource utilization, including testing an enclosed terrestrial ecosystem in the lunar environment.