Chang'e-8 lunar construction technologies Options

[Huguet]

The Chang'e 8 mission, in addition to scientific surveys and experiments, will test key technologies to lay the groundwork for the construction of a science and research base on the moon, Xinhua reported.

https://www.space.com/43000-china-moon-expl...earch-base.html
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/14/c_137743306.htm

http://www.esa.int/Highlights/Lunar_3D_printing
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_En...ith_3D_printing

"3D printing works best at room temperature but over much of the Moon temperatures vary enormously across days and nights lasting two weeks each. For potential settlement, the lunar poles offer the most moderate temperature range."

[Phil Stooke]

Andrew Jones is saying:

https://twitter.com/AJ_FI/status/1477377799346339844

that stories like this are mixing up two different things, the CE8 mission and the full International Lunar Research Station. It might be thought of like this - that CE8 is the first component of (or a precursor to) a big new station. The difference in dates is between starting and completing the project, not moving it forwards. There's a bit of retro-conflating (is that a word? Well, it is now) going on too, with some statements that even CE4 is the start of the ILRS.

Phil

[Huguet]

Andrew Jones is saying: that stories like this are mixing up two different things, the CE8 mission and the full International Lunar Research Station

I believe the south china morning post made it clear. They put first a goal to make a unmanned lunar station, first active with chang'e-8. That's not the manned ILRS, but indeed one must follows the other. Changing chang'e-8 launch date from 2035 to 2027 is to agressively put it forward.., it is unwise not to understand this message....

[Huguet]

Changing chang'e-8 launch date from 2035 to 2027 is to agressively put it forward

Correcting Myself:

Chang'e-8 was first scheduled to the Stage 1 of Phase II - ILRS, this was put at 2026 to 2035 period (Global Space Exploration Conference 2021 GLEX2021).

So, if they manage to launch chang'e-8 by 2027 they are just keeping their schedule.

The diference now is the purpose of chang'e-8, from a testbed of technology to became a unmanned lunar base.

Probably they just wanna have a Lunar Base quicker, or are not shure on the developing phases II and III of the ILRS, or they need a stablished unmanned lunar base to help forward other stages, this make sense considering the new proposal to use a 3 core LM-5... One thing happened for shure,.. all this put chang'e-8 on spot.