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Sampling a 'quasi-moon': What's next for China's newly launched Tianwen 2 asteroid-sampling mission
The Tianwen 2 asteroid-comet probe lifted off on Tuesday (May 28), riding into the final frontier atop a Long March 3B rocket ...
China Launches Mission to Capture Pieces of an Unusual Asteroid
The robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, which some scientists suspect is a fragment of the moon.
China mission lifts off to explore two unusual objects that haven’t been visited by spacecraft before
China’s Tianwen-2 mission has launched to explore an asteroid that may be a piece of the moon, as well as an active asteroid ...
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China launches mission to retrieve asteroid samples
China embarked on Thursday on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its ...
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Tianwen-2 is voyaging to an asteroid and a comet
After leaving Earth, Tianwen-2 will reach Kamo‘oalewa by July 2026. This tiny, elongated asteroid likely spans no more than ...
China's Tianwen-2 Mission Lifts Off Successfully To Explore Asteroid, Collect Samples
Tianwen-2 has an approach similar to NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission which collected samples from the asteroid Bennu and dropped ...
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China’s Tianwen-2 Embarks on a Daring Quest to Unravel the Origins of Earth’s Quasi-Satellite and the Mysteries of Active Asteroids
It’s like trying to dock a boat with a mountain floating in space and tumbling really unpredictably and with almost no ...
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First Quadcopter to Be Flown to Another World Will Target the Selk Crater on Titan
American space agency NASA announced the Dragonfly quadcopter that will be sent to Titan will target the Selk crater on ...