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China Plans Planetary Defense Test By Slamming Mach 26 Spacecraft Into Asteroid
China Plans Planetary Defense Test By Slamming Mach 26 Spacecraft Into Asteroid
A new paper under peer review by the Chinese-language Journal of Deep Space Exploration lays out an ambitious plan to crash a spacecraft at Mach 26, or 20,000 mph, into a near-Earth asteroid to test new planetary defenses.
The South China Morning Post reports that a team led by Li Mingtao, chief scientist for planetary defense at the China National Space Administration, is planning a mission even more ambitious than NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART).
That mission would...
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DSA approved. ✅
Antares is the first advanced reactor to receive DOE approval of a Documented Safety Analysis under DOE-STD-1271.
Our Mark-0 reactor now moves to Readiness Review.
Onward. pic.twitter.com/DovqJsVVwz
— Antares (@AntaresNuclear) April 6, 2026
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