China’s first planetary defence mission appears to be far more ambitious than Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart), according to a new paper outlining its plan to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid before 2030. Unlike Dart, a proof-of-concept that nudged one asteroid’s orbit around another, China is aiming for a more realistic planetary-defence test. It aims to directly alter an asteroid’s orbit relative to Earth, “or even break up its structure”, according to a team led by Li Mingtao,…
A required planetary defense capability. Let’s hope they are better at planning potential reentry of matter, especially better than their unplanned rocket garbage.
You think they are able to achieve the delta V required to get out of orbit and be able to accelerate a projectile to Mach 26 over a distance that would allow debris to fall back into orbit?
China leapfrogged everyone by centuries and went straight to star wars shit I guess.
