At the end of 2017, the United States began to promote the "return to the moon" plan, build a lunar orbit space station, and use it as a springboard for landing on Mars. In addition to the United States, in recent years, the world's major aerospace powers have come up with ambitious lunar exploration programs, which are called a hundred flowers. 2019 has arrived, what progress has the national lunar exploration program made?

EU: Moon "Mining" Target 2025

On January 21, 2019, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced that it had signed a 12-month contract with the European rocket manufacturer Ariane Group to study lunar mining technology and plans to begin in 2025. Related detection tasks. The purpose of this mission is to extract the weathered soil on the surface of the moon. The weathered layer is a mixture of clay, minerals, comminuted glass and other compounds that cover the entire lunar surface and are more than 12 feet deep.

Japan: the moon is coming soon

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) plans to launch the first soft landing lunar probe codenamed "SLIM" in the second half of 2019. In August 2018, JAXA announced that it was planning a manned moon landing plan. The program participates in the NASA Lunar Orbital Space Station project and works with ESA to achieve manned landings by 2030.

India: ambitions are often frustrated

The Indian Space Research Organization's Moon-2, which weighs 3.89 tons, consists of orbiters, landers and lunar rover. It was originally planned to launch in 2017, first postponed to April 2018, postponed to October, and postponed until December, and continued to postpone until January 2019. On January 19th, the Indian Space Research Organization announced that it will launch the Moon-2 in mid-April.

With the smooth progress of China's No. 4 mission, lunar exploration has once again become the topic of global hot debate. In fact, the moon has never been far from the focus of international space exploration.