China has successfully deployed the world's first three-satellite constellation on the distant retrograde orbit (DRO) of the Earth-Moon system, marking a milestone in the country's deep-space exploration capabilities, scientists announced at an academic symposium in Beijing on Monday.
As problems go, I’d rather deal with superfine dust than Mars’ poisonous soil.
Chang’e 8 in 2028 is going to be really exciting, it’s supposed to have an ISRU experiment.
Indeed, and it looks like plants have been grown successfully using lunar soil already https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/scientists-grow-plants-in-lunar-soil/
Chang’e 8 is also bringing up an ecosystem in a box experiment to see how it does on the moon in addition to the ISRU printing stuff out of regolith experiment.
Can’t wait to see how that pans out!