Hit out to defend: China intends to test space weapons

Following NASA, China is about to test the technology of land protection from potential shocks from space. Chinese scientists have presented in the article for Journal of Deep Space Exploration their plan for asteroid strikes to check the technology of planetary protection. The same technology was first tested by NASA in 2022 and very successfully, Futurism writes. In focus. Technology has appeared its Telegram channel.

Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! According to the article, Chinese scientists plan to send a spacecraft by 2030 to the Earth asteroid about 30 meters wide so that it can strike a stroke. In this way, China is going to check the technology of land protection from potentially dangerous asteroids that can fall on our planet.

Initially, scientists chose as a target for striking an asteroid 2019 VL5, but then another Earth Space Stone called 2015 XF261 was chosen. According to the plan, the mission will consist of two spacecraft. Initially, the asteroid will arrive with a stone observation apparatus, which will last for 3-6 months. Then another device will come to its goal, which will have to crash into an asteroid. The first probe will be observed by the impact and its consequences.

Two years ago, NASA had already tested the Earth's protection technology from asteroids, when the Dart probe collided with asteroid Drizhrif 170 meters wide. It was the world's first demonstration of planetary protection technology. The collision was observed by another probe, which went with the apparatus that struck the asteroid. It turned out that the orbit of Didimo, which rotates around the larger asteroid, has changed.

Thus, NASA has come to the conclusion that this technology works and can be used to protect the land from dangerous asteroids. Also, to protect the planet from the dangerous space stones, NASA is created by the NEO Surveyor telescope, which will go into orbit in 2028. With it, scientists will monitor the movement of any potentially dangerous asteroids that can ever crash into the ground.

It is known that in the near future no asteroid should face the earth, but observations of them continue, because different cosmic phenomena can change the trajectory of movement of these stones. According to focus, scientists from NASA have received images of two potentially dangerous asteroids when they flew past the ground. As a result, scientists were waiting for a surprise, because another unknown object was discovered.