During this year's China Aerospace legislature (chin. 中国航天大会), Wu WeiRen (chin. 吴伟仁) spoke from the Chinese Academy of Engineering (chin. 中国工程院), the main designer of the Moon exploration mission. Wu WeiRen reported that around 2030 China plans to launch the TianWen 3 probe (chin. 天问三号) to carry out a mission to retrieve and bring ground samples to Earth from the surface of Mars.
He added that, given the current advancement in this area in another countries, China would appear to be the first country to successfully bring samples from Mars. On the Red Planet is simply a Chinese Martian rover, which arrived there in 2021 as part of the TianWen 1 mission.
Wu WeiRenWu WeiRen confirmed that China was planning to launch a TianWen 2 probe in 2025 to mark an asteroid 40 million miles from Earth. This probe will let you to conduct investigation on the chemical composition of the asteroid, take samples from its surface and bring them back to Earth. The preparations include TianWen missions to analyse Jupiter and then Uranus.
During the conference Wu WeiRen besides discussed a number of key tasks of China in the field of deep space exploration. He stated that the probability of an asteroid being struck on Earth is highly low, but there is specified a threat. Earth in its past experienced specified cataclysms. Asteroids have hit Earth many times in the past, causing serious effects affecting full ecosystems of fauna and flora. Therefore, China has developed a plan to defend Earth from asteroids. As part of this plan, in 2027, an effort will be made to hit an asteroid kinetically tens of millions of kilometers from Earth to force it to change its trajectory.
Wu WeiRen besides reported that in the mediate of this century China plans to launch a fresh kind of high-power spacecraft that will be able to scope the edge of the Solar strategy at a distance of 80 to 100 AU (astronomical unit, about equal to the average distance of the Earth from the Sun) and return to Earth. Ships of this kind will let technological exploration of distant, dark and unknown regions of the solar system. This will be a immense step in the past of humanity's knowing of the universe.
Based on:
- sohu.com;
- kepu.gov.cn;
- finance.sina.com.cn;
Author: 梁安基 Andrzej Z. Liang, 上海 Shanghai, 中国 China
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