China’s next moon mission to include Egypt and Bahrain, member of US Artemis Accords


As China pushes ahead with its lunar ambitions, Egypt and Bahrain have signed on as international partners to build and deliver scientific instruments to the moon on board the Chang’e-7 mission to search for water ice at its south pole, planned for 2026.

A cooperation agreement was signed last week between the Egyptian Space Agency, Bahrain’s National Space Science Agency, and the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics for the joint development of a hyperspectral camera.

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