{"id":47512,"date":"2025-09-06T15:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T15:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/47512\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T15:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T15:29:06","slug":"china-designing-mission-to-defend-earth-from-asteroids-top-space-researcher-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/47512\/","title":{"rendered":"China designing mission to defend Earth from asteroids, top space researcher says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China is planning an <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3298116\/china-builds-planetary-defence-team-concerns-grow-over-2024-yr4-asteroid?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">advanced mission<\/a> to strike an asteroid and alter its orbit with a spacecraft to reduce the risk of impact, according to a top space researcher.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">If successful, China will become the second country after the United States to achieve this ability.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Wu Weiren, the chief designer of China\u2019s lunar exploration programme and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, revealed this \u201ckinetic impact demonstration mission\u201d on Friday, saying it would test the feasibility of \u201cdefending against asteroids\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The mission, which China was \u201cstriving to carry out within this year\u201d, would target a small asteroid located tens of millions of kilometres away, aiming to produce an orbital deflection of about 3cm to 5cm (1.2 to 2 inches), Wu told state-run broadcaster CGTN.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He said the mission would include both an observer and an impactor spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Wu unveiled the plan at the third Deep Space Exploration (Tiandu) International Conference in Hefei, in the central province of Anhui.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China is planning an advanced mission to strike an asteroid and alter its orbit with a spacecraft to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270],"tags":[35252,14964,20983,35249,35256,381,35257,35248,35253,13413,35255,35254,18,35250,19,17,1024,11009,133,451,35251,107,35258],"class_list":{"0":"post-47512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-2016-ho3","9":"tag-anhui","10":"tag-asteroid","11":"tag-asteroid-defence","12":"tag-cgtn","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-china-daily","15":"tag-chinas-space-programme","16":"tag-chinese-academy-of-engineering","17":"tag-dart","18":"tag-didymos","19":"tag-dimorphos","20":"tag-eire","21":"tag-hefei","22":"tag-ie","23":"tag-ireland","24":"tag-nasa","25":"tag-nea","26":"tag-science","27":"tag-space","28":"tag-tianwen-2","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-wu-weiren"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}