China's Tianwen-2 Mission Set to Collect Asteroid and Comet Samples
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China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft is launching to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid Kamoʻoalewa, which may be a fragment of the moon, aiming to return the samples to Earth by 2027 to study the origins of Earth and the moon.
- China to Launch Tianwen-2 Mission to Capture Pieces of Near-Earth Asteroid The New York Times
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- China’s New Space Mission Aims to Uncover Solar System’s Deepest Secrets The Daily Galaxy
- China to launch the Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission NASASpaceFlight.com -
- Launching soon: Tianwen-2 will voyage to an asteroid and a comet Astronomy Magazine
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