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2026-08-21 Home Front: Politix

Trump signs memo to help drastically boost US commercial space launches

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1 China hunts for lunar ice in one of solar system's coldest places

BEIJING, Aug 21 (Reuters) - China is poised to launch Chang'e-7, its most technologically complex lunar mission to date, in its search for frozen stores of water in permanently shadowed craters near the moon's south pole.
The uncrewed mission, named after a mythical Chinese ‌goddess of the moon, will feature the deployment of a robotic lander, rover, and "hopping" probe to one of the coldest places in the solar system.
It will represent a major step towards Beijing's long-term goal of building a permanent human presence on the moon, with plans underway for a crewed lunar landing before 2030 and the setting up of a joint research station with Russia by 2035.

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