China has a plan to test planetary defense techniques in 2020.
According to a Space News report (opens in new tab) Tuesday, the China National Space Administration plans to work at a potentially hazardous asteroid in the next decade.
The chief designer of China's Long March rocket series revealed further details in a Chinese-language lecture.
China will launch a mission to sample asteroids.
The impactor mission will be launched on a Long March 3B rocket, according to a report. There will be a separate impactor and orbiter. Both the former and the latter will impact near-Earth objects.
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test is due to arrive at its own destination around September. The impactor will be sent to Dimorphos at a speed of 4.1 miles per second to try to change its trajectory.
Despite decades of searching by NASA and other space entities, there are no imminent dangers to scientists. The term "potentially hazardous" is complex as it describes a set of space rock characteristics predicted to have a higher chance of impact.
According to recent comments by a deputy director, China has been working on a planetary defense plan. In January, the agency released a "white paper" about plans to build a near- Earth object defense system.
The country is an independent actor in space and has come under fire recently from the Biden administration. NASA criticized China for allowing a booster to fall in 2021. NASA is not allowed to engage in any bilateral activities with China or Chinese owned companies.
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