China Asteroid mission will collide 100 feet asteroid by 2030 Know more

China Asteroid Mission: There are millions of such objects in our space, which can affect our planet if they collide with the Earth. To solve this problem, the American space agency NASA completed the DART mission last year. Under it, a spacecraft was collided with an asteroid, so that in future any such problem can be eliminated before it collides with the Earth. Now China is also going to do the same. It has also planned to collide with an asteroid. A craft will be collided with an asteroid and the rocks moving in space will be studied. The mission can be completed by 2030.

space.com and the planetary society According to the report, China has also chosen its target. China National Space Administration (CNSA) has its eyes on an asteroid named 2015 XF261. Its size is about 100 feet wide.

Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Database According to the Astronomical Observatory, 2015 XF261 last came closest to Earth on Tuesday, July 9 this week. It passed at a distance of 50 million kilometers from our planet. Then its speed was 42 thousand kilometers per hour.

What was America’s DART mission?

In the year 2022, the US space agency NASA completed the DART mission. Under this, on 26 September 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft deliberately collided with an asteroid named Dimorphos. By colliding, NASA wanted to know whether this changes the orbit of the asteroid or not. This mission was successful. That is, NASA came to the conclusion that in future, after such collisions, the direction of the asteroid can be changed and the asteroids that pose a threat to the Earth can be ‘removed from the path’. Now China also wants to do the same.