China called off its ice-hunting Moon shot a day before launch
THE SO WHAT
Scrubbing Chang’e 7 a day before launch underscores how fragile even well-funded space timelines are—one sentence can push a multi-year plan. If your strategy leans on lunar or cislunar infrastructure, treat these missions as probabilistic inputs and build slack into both technical and geopolitical assumptions.
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