China releases a first picture of Tianwen 2 mission because spacecraft shores for a nearby asteroid land.
Tianwen 2 polled to a Long March 3b Rocket on May 28 and is intended to change and sampling mysterious asteroids Kayo’ealewathat a seven of the Earth known “Like months.” And the mission keeps progress, according to a first official update.
The China National Administration (CNSA) revealed on June 6 statement that the spacecraft operates closely and more than 3 million kilometers (1.86 million miles) distance from the ground.
CNSA also published an image taken by a cameraering camera by spacecraft showing one of two circular solar panels in Tianwen 2 similar to the appearance of those in NASA LUY Mission to visit Trojan asteroids near Jupiter.
Strange, the image is the first real view of Tianwen 2 released public. To date, only art renders are released, and mission launch is not broadcast live.
Tianwen 2 Hope to get to you’oalewa On July 2026, it follows the burning machine in good tuning in its orbit. It will spend several months of orbiting and study asteroids – that scientists think of being a Chunk to the moon collapsed with a giant effect – before collecting samples and go to the ground.
After delivery of samples of a reentry of late 2027, Tianwen 2 uses gravity of land for a slingshot manipulation to send it to a course comet 311p / Panstarrs are about 2035.
The mission, by visiting an asteroid and commet, seeking to provide nature and composition of planet bodies such as evolution of SOLL System and the The origin of water in the world.
Tianwen 2 cannot be the first deep encounter in Chinese space with an asteroid. Change’e in the Lunar Orbiter country makes a flyby to asteroid toutatis In 2012 as part of an expanded mission after mapping to the moon.
China also has experience in returning to return it Chang’e 5 Mission, snagging material from the nearest month of 2020, and Chang’e 6collected first frequent samples from lunar away from 2024.
Tianwen 2 is the second Chinese research planet. It follows Tianwen 1launched by 2020, which sent an orbiter and a rover to Mars.
