China's Chang'e 7 moon-landing mission will apparently include a flag that can flutter in the moon's thin and tenuous atmosphere. Skip to main content.

China’s lunar ambitions have evolved from symbolic flag planting to a systematic push for permanent space infrastructure.

China's Chang'e 7 mission will take the first educational payload designed to make a flag flutter on the moon's surface. [GIF/Deep Space Exploration Laboratory] ...

The flag that Chang'e 6 unfurled on the moon is the same size as the one planted during the Chang'e 5 mission on the near side of the moon — 30 centimeters by 20 cm, which is about the same size ...

But if you want to plant a flag on the moon and leave it there, it won’t flutter in the long run. China wants to address that through the interaction of electromagnetic fields.

New images from Odysseus moon lander released 19:06. Beijing — China said its lunar spacecraft unfurled the country's red and gold flag for the first time on the far side of the moon before part ...

China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe departed from the far side of the moon on Tuesday, moving a step closer to completing an ambitious mission that underlines the country’s rise as a space superpower.

This China National Space Administration handout image released by Xinhua News Agency shows the lander-ascender combination of the Chang'e-6 probe taken by a mini rover after it landed on the moon ...

China said its lunar spacecraft unfurled the country's red and gold flag for the first time on the far side of the moon before part of the vehicle blasted off early Tuesday with rock and soil ...

China’s space program got a late start; it didn’t launch a human to space until 2003, three decades after the United States last sent a human being to the moon.