China has postponed its planned ambitious Chang’e-7 lunar mission. The mission was set to search for water ice on the moon. The spacecraft was scheduled to lift off in the coming days from the Wenchang Space Launch Site on China’s southern Hainan island. In a brief statement, the China Manned Space Agency says the mission does not meet the launch conditions and cannot take place during the planned window this year. Preparations had been underway at the launch site for weeks. The Chang’e moon exploration program is named after a Chinese moon goddess and this is the seventh in the program.