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[ad_1] After Nasa’s DART mission, China has revealed it will be crashing its spacecraft into an asteroid too. After NASA's DART spacecraft successfully slammed into its target asteroid, China too is planning to save Earth from dangerous asteroids. it will conduct its own planetary defence test in 2025. The China National Space Agency is aiming to alter the orbit of a potentially dangerous asteroid by using a kinetic impactor test just the way NASA did a few days back. It is drafting a planetary defence plan by conducting technical studies and research into developing systems to counter the threats caused by near Earth asteroids, said Wu Yanhua, deputy director CNSA in a conversation with China Central Television (CCTV).Notably, China is even developing a combined asteroid sample-retur...

[ad_1] China plans to launch three unmanned missions to the moon over the next 10 years, as it seeks to rival the US in the new era of space exploration. China plans to launch three unmanned missions to the moon over the next 10 years, as it seeks to rival the US in the new era of space exploration. China's National Space Administration, its equivalent of NASA, received approval to send three orbiters to the moon as part of the Chang'e lunar program, said Liu Jizhong, an official with the China Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center, according to state-backed CCTV. The announcement came a day after China said it discovered a new lunar mineral, via samples retrieved by its Chang'e-5 mission. Named Changesite-(Y), it w...

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Forget NASA’s DART mission, China gunning for dangerous asteroid too

After Huge Discovery, China Plans More Moon Missions