China intends to send a spacecraft to an asteroid in 2025 or 2026 to study it and change its course. - Reuters
BEIJING (China Daily/Asia News Network): China has begun to develop a defense system against near-Earth asteroids that could potentially hit Earth, according to a key figure in the country's space industry.
Wu Yanhua, deputy director of the China National Space Administration, said on Friday (April 22) that China has started forming a research and development system for defence against near-Earth asteroids, to improve the world's capability for monitoring, warning about and handling the extraterrestrial hazards.
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