Chinas Raumsonde Tianwen-2 hat sich mit dem Quasi-Mond der Erde getroffen
https://www.wired.com/story/chinas-tianwen-2-space-probe-earth-quasi-moon/
Chinas Raumsonde Tianwen-2 hat sich mit dem Quasi-Mond der Erde getroffen
https://www.wired.com/story/chinas-tianwen-2-space-probe-earth-quasi-moon/
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The China National Space Administration’s asteroid probe Tianwen-2 successfully reached the asteroid Kamo’oalewa, the most stable of Earth’s known quasi-satellites, which orbits the sun in a path nearly identical to Earth’s.
After undergoing multiple orbital adjustments in deep space, it first detected Kamo’oalewa on June 6, 2026. On July 2, it successfully captured the first-ever images of Kamo’oalewa from a distance of about 20 kilometers. This achievement comes at the end of a 400-day journey covering a distance of roughly 1 billion kilometers.
Landing on the asteroid—let alone gathering samples—will be a challenge. If this mission is successful, it will mark another achievement in asteroid sample return, following Japan’s Hayabusa and Hayabusa2 missions—the first to return asteroid samples to Earth—and NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission.
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