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.
