The Chinese "unites" for Planetary defense.

Deputy Director Wu Yanhua of the Chinese National Space Administration stated that China intends to develop a planetary defense program against asteroids, for which they want to launch a mission in the year 2025 or 2026 in order to study an asteroid potentially dangerous and act against it.

This to verify the technologies and methods by which an asteroid heading for Earth could be deflected, last year some scientists from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences presented their calculations on the number of rockets needed to deflect such an asteroid. to the asteroid venus, about 500 meters in diameter, according to their accounts, it would take a minimum of 23 rockets of the long march 5 model to crash them against the asteroid and manage to deflect it with their blow.

This mission that the Chinese intend to undertake may be very similar to NASA's DART mission, which is currently heading to the asteroid Didymos, which is about 280 meters in diameter, and to the moon, which orbits Dimorphos, which is about 160 meters in diameter.

The objective of the mission is to impact the ship against Dimorphos on September 26 in order to try to deflect the moon a little and thus evaluate the amount of energy needed, the success with the impact site and other technological parameters that we help fine-tune a true asteroid defense system.

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