Zhang Rongqiao, chief designer of China’s Tianwen-2 space mission, said China plans to launch a spacecraft of the same name around 2025 to collect samples from a near-Earth asteroid and study a comet. It has been reported xinhua
Zhang said the mission’s main purpose is to send a probe to the near-Earth asteroid 2016HO3 to collect samples. After that, the instrument will be sent to study the comet in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
“If successful, these will be the first samples collected by China in interplanetary space,” the designer said.
It was previously reported that China succeeded on March 13. launched It entered orbit of the Horus-2 remote sensing satellite. The launch was carried out by the CZ-2C (“Changzheng-2-ce”) rocket from Jiuquan Cosmodrome in the north of the People’s Republic of China at 12:02 Beijing time (07:02 Moscow time).