“A slide presented by Long shows that the impact mission will be launched in 2026 on a Long March 3B rocket,” the report said SpaceNews.
The mission will include a separate impactor and orbiter. The former will impact near-Earth object 2020 PN1 with the spacecraft being the last to make observations.
Defense mission asteroid The kinetics appear to be similar to NASA’s Dual Asteroid Diversion Test (DART), which will arrive at its own destination sometime this September 2022. NASA plans to send a kinetic impactor to the moon, Dimorphos at 4.1 miles per second (6.6 km/s), to try to change its orbit around the asteroid Didymos.
There is no immediate danger to scientists despite decades of careful search by the American Space Agency (NASA) and many other extraterrestrial entities. The term “potentially hazardous” is also complex, as it describes a set of characteristics of extraterrestrial rock that are predicted to have a higher probability of impact.
According to CNSA deputy director Wu Yanhua, China has been working on a broader planetary defense plan that involves research and technical studies. The agency also released a “white paper” in January discussing plans to build a near-Earth object defense system.
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