Moon exploration advancements: Inflatable telescope and China's space race.

European scientists are developing an inflatable radio telescope concept that could do groundbreaking science on the moon. The idea proposes an array of radio antennas printed on the superlight space-blanket material kapton that would travel to the moon folded inside the planned European Large Logistics Lander, also known as Argonaut. Astronomers are interested in building a radio telescope on the far side of the moon, as the region is free of the radio noise generated by technology on Earth. A telescope placed in this region would therefore be able to detect signals that cannot be studied from Earth's surface, including the 21 centimeter emission line produced by atomic hydrogen, which permeated the universe in the first hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang.