HEFEI, April 24 (Xinhua) — Zhang Rongqiao, chief designer of China’s planetary exploration program and Tianwen-2 (Tianwen-2) mission Monday, said. China plans to launch the Tianwen-2 mission around 2025 to collect samples from near-Earth asteroids and explore comets, Zhang said at a press conference on China Space Day. which corresponds to April 24 that the main goal of the Tianwen-2 mission The mission is to send a probe to a near-Earth asteroid codenamed “2016HO3” (2016HO3) to collect samples from the asteroid. It will be China’s first collection of samples from interstellar space. if successful adding that a spacecraft will be sent to orbit and landing to collect samples on this asteroid. The spacecraft in the mission above are expected to continue exploring comets in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. After completing the main mission
