China's Lunar Telescope Launch Set for 2026.

China plans to launch a satellite constellation that orbits the moon to explore the early days of the universe as early as 2026. The constellation would consist of one "mother" satellite and eight "daughter" craft, with the mother processing information and communicating with Earth, and the daughters detecting radio signals from the farthest reaches of space. The proposed "Discovering Sky at the Longest Wavelength," or Hongmeng Project, could be ready as early as 2026 and would allow astronomers to study the low-frequency part of the electromagnetic spectrum, which is impossible to study from Earth's surface due to strong absorption by Earth's atmosphere.