China plans to carry out near -earth asteroid defense tasks in the next 10 years to test the ability to prevent small asteroids from hitting the earth.
Comprehensive Hong Kong Zhongtong News Agency and Science and Technology Daily reported that Wu Weiren, director and chief scientist of the China Deep Space Exploration Laboratory and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, introduced the future of the country at the annual meeting of the Chinese Association for Science and TechnologyThe 15 -year space exploration plan, including planning to be carried by the moon by 2030, and the first "near -ground asteroid defense missions" in the next 10 years.
Wu Weiren introduced that the specific method of defense mission near the ground is aiming at a small celestial body tens of millions of kilometers and tens of meters, and then a hitter was launched at 10 million kilometers to makeIts running orbit changes, and then evaluate the effect.The purpose of this task is to verify the ability to prevent Xiaoxing from hitting the earth, to achieve the goal of "colliding accurate, pushing, measurement, clear".
