China's space agency unveils plans for multiple Tianwen missions, including asteroid sample return and journeys to Mars and Jupiter.
CNSA officials stated that the second Tianwen mission will launch next year. The third and fourth Tianwen missions are likely to launch in 2030.The China National Space Administration is already looking beyond the Chang’e-6 sample return mission, which recently retrieved 1,935.3 grams of lunar soil from the moon’s far side.
The next Chang’e lunar mission is also in development, as China aims to send its first crewed missions to the moon.returned to Earth on June 25. It made history by bringing back the first lunar samples from the far side of the moon. Tianwen-2 will target the near-Earth asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa. It will collect samples and return them to Earth roughly two and a half years after launch. In a similar fashion to NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe, the Tianwen-2 spacecraft will deliver the samples during an Earth flyby. It will then proceed to the main-belt comet 311P/PANSTARRS.from SpaceNews, Tianwen-4 will include a solar-powered Jupiter orbiter and a radioisotope-powered spacecraft that will perform a flyby of Uranus.
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