China has taken a significant step toward its goal of building a permanent lunar research facility, the “Guanghan Palace,” after successfully retrieving specially engineered, 100-gram bricks from the Moon’s surface following nearly a year in space.
These 34 experimental blocks, designed to survive the Moon’s harsh environment and engineered using materials that mimic lunar regolith, have all remained in good condition, providing a crucial early proof-of-concept for future extraterrestrial construction.
The project is inspired by a traditional Chinese fairy tale and is part of the nation’s ambitious long-term space strategy, which targets starting construction by 2028. China aims to land its first astronauts on the Moon by 2030 and have a basic structure for the research facility completed by 2035. Early observations by researchers, including an associate professor at Huanzhong University of Science and Technology, show the bricks appear lighter in color, a change that requires further assessment to determine the cause.
A Chinese space-tech lab has unveiled a lunar brick maker that turns moon dust into bricks, the world’s first proof-of-concept machine of this kind.
It is designed to focus sunlight to generate temperatures above 1,300°C and melt lunar soil to create shaped bricks, laying the… pic.twitter.com/JWnBQOwuiB
— China Science (@ChinaScience) September 22, 2025
This successful test is vital as China plans to use in-situ resources to reduce the immense cost and logistical challenge of transporting prefabricated materials from Earth.
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