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China is preparing its own planetary defense mission: it’s an asteroid it will try to deflect

The Chinese space agency has chosen asteroid 2019 VL5 as the target of a mission it will launch in 2025. | Fountain: WHAT

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China does not want to fall behind in the space race and, like POTis working on his planetary defense mission, seeking to distract asteroid in space.

Like the DART mission and the asteroid Dimorphos, your space agency is working on its own deflection project. 2019 VL5, a very interesting breed to study. The designated year is 2025.

China and its defense mission

He 2019 VL5 This asteroid It has a diameter of 33 meters and makes a complete revolution, like the Earth, in 365 days.

China will send the impactor into space using its Long March 3B rockets. It will be accompanied by a small observation craft that will take pictures of the impact.

Said probe will crash right on 2019 VL5 at a speed of 6.4 kilometers per second, trying to deviate from its orbit at a distance of up to 1000 kilometers three months after the impact.

Small asteroid it will also be observed during the annual observation windows in October and November with ground-based telescopes and the Xuntian Space Telescope, due to launch into an orbit similar to that of the Tiangong space station in late 2024.

like dart

The mission combines elements of the Asteroid Double Diversion Test mission (DART) owned POT and Hera from ESA.

Spaceship DART On September 26, 2022, it collided with the asteroid Dimorphos, a small moon orbiting a larger moon called Didymos.

Further analysis indicated that the impact had disrupted Dimorphos’ orbit, marking a successful first deflection. asteroid planetary protection of the world.

The ESA Hera mission will observe Didymos and Dimorphos later this decade to more accurately determine the impact of the collision.

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