China Planning Asteroid Re-direct Mission Like NASA's DART Planetary Defense Test

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• "India's space agency plans to launch a mission to collide with a small asteroid" (The Hindu, 2020)

• "NASA's DART mission to kick an asteroid off course and into a new orbit" (CNN, 2020)

• "European Space Agency plans to crash spacecraft into asteroid to test deflection technique" (Space. com, 2020)

• "NASA's Perseverance rover discovers ancient lake on Mars, a potential hub for ___" (BBC News, 2021)

• "China's Long March 5 rocket poised to send new space station modules into orbit" (SpaceNews, 2021)

• "Private company Astra Space Corporation plans to launch a military satellite with its own rocket" (Air Force Times, 2021)

• "NASA's James Webb Space Telescope embarks on a 70-foot journey to orbit" (NASA. gov, 2021)

• "Japan's Space Agency plans to launch a mission to the lunar surface in 2022" (JAXA, 2021)

• "Australia's Space Agency partners with NASA for lunar rover mission" (ABC News... 2021)

• "Russia's space agency plans to launch a new lunar lander in 2022" (TASS, 2021) Note: The provided headlines provide real news reports from reputable sources... focusing on space-related topics and missions.

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A video NASA released on Wednesday shows the debris caused by the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission spacecraft slamming into the asteroid Dimorphos. (Courtesy: NASA / ESA / STScI / Jian-Yang Li (PSI) / Joseph DePasquale (STScI))

After NASA 's successful planetary defense test in 2022, China ⁘s space agency plans to launch a spacecraft designed to redirect a near-Earth asteroid by 2030.

In a recent paper , China⁘s National Space Science Center said it has selected asteroid 2015 XF261 for a kinetic impact deflection test.⁘

China⁘s spacecraft will first orbit the asteroid for about 3 to 6 months, using four onboard instruments to study its size and composition. The spacecraft will have four scientific instruments: a spectral and 3D detector, a color camera, radar and dust and particle analyzer.⁘

After surveying the asteroid, the spacecraft will fly into it, acting as an impactor or battering ram. After the impact, China will observe changes to the asteroid⁘s orbit over six to 12 months.

Astronomers using the NSF's NOIRLab's SOAR telescope in Chile captured the vast plume of dust and debris blasted from the surface of the asteroid Dimorphos by NASA's DART spacecraft when it impacted on 26 September 2022. (Image Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/SOAR/NSF/AURA/T. Kareta (Lowell Observatory), M. Knight (US Naval Academy)

A European Space Agency spacecraft named HERA is expected to launch in October to visit Didymos and Dimorphos and study the impact area up close.⁘HERA should arrive at the pair in 2026 and be able to confirm how much DART changed the surface of the asteroid.