China’s space plans: lunar GPS, a 3D-printed moon base and soil samples from Mars

Holly Chik presents an episode analysing new announcements about the Chinese space programme. Post science reporter Xin Ling and Space.com journalist Andrew Jones reports on the development of the Tiangong space station as the US continues to block any scientific collaboration; on Beijing’s timeline for developing a GPS system for the moon and 3D printing bricks for the first lunar base, as well as hopes for beating the US in a race to get soil samples from Mars and plans for a survey of Jupiter’s moon Callisto.