{"id":256166,"date":"2025-07-11T12:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T12:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/256166\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T12:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T12:29:12","slug":"china-eyes-the-moon-mars-and-space-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/256166\/","title":{"rendered":"China eyes the moon, Mars and space dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"

On May 28, China launched Tianwen-2, a robotic mission that aims to land on a tumbling near-Earth asteroid barely the size of a conference room, extract samples and send them back to Earth.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAndrew Jones covers China’s space industry for SpaceNews. Andrew has previously lived in China and reported from major space conferences there. Based in Helsinki, Finland, he has written for National Geographic, New Scientist, Smithsonian Magazine, Sky…\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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