China launches international Earth-Moon CubeSat constellation program

TREE NEWS update: At the 2026 Tiandu International Conference on Deep Space Exploration, China officially launched the International Earth-Moon CubeSat Constellation Science Program. The initiative aims to deploy satellite clusters in cislunar space with multiple countries, conducting space environment monitoring, gamma-ray burst detection, and lunar resource exploration. The full deployment is targeted for completion around 2030, filling a global gap in systematic cislunar observations.