The anticipated launch of China's robotic Chang'e-7 mission, designed to scour the moon's south pole for water ice - a highly valuable resource that the US also hopes to use - "cannot take place during the planned window this year", according to a statement from the China Manned Space Engineering Office shared by Chinese state media.

China's ambitious space program will take it to the moon as soon as next month, and it's looking for water.

BEIJING: 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 Chang'e-7 mission is expected to set course for our celestial neighbour later this month

China is set to launch Chang’e-7 to search for frozen water near the Moon’s south pole, deploying a lander, rover and hopping probe.

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Agência diz que decisão foi tomada após uma 'avaliação abrangente'

The Chang’e 7 mission does not meet the conditions for launch."