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Tianwen-2 is set to arrive at Kamo’oalewa in July 2026 and will conduct surveys of the asteroid over several months.
The Chinese asteroid probe Tianwen-2 has released a selfie taken with Earth.
The Tianwen-2 mission has been operating for 125 days in space and remains on track for arrival in the summer of 2026.
Tianwen-2 has captured images of itself and of Earth and the Moon from approximately 590,000 kilometers away.
Tianwen-2 is expected to continue exploring into the 2030s, targeting asteroid 311P/PanSTARRS in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
The China National Space Administration shared a new image of Tianwen-2 captured by an onboard camera, which shows the atmospheric reentry shell where samples will be stored.
Tianwen-2 is currently 45 million km away from Kamoʻoalewa.
CNSA released an image of Tianwen-2 in deep space using a robotic arm.
China's Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is approximately 43 million kilometers away from Earth and 45 million kilometers from its target, 2016HO3/469219 Kamoʻoalewa.
Tianwen-2 is a spacecraft designed for delivering samples from near-Earth asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa.
Tianwen-2 is equipped with various scientific instruments, including a visible and infrared imaging spectrometer and a thermal emission spectrometer.
Tianwen-2 will return the collected samples to Earth around 2029 during a flyby.
Tianwen-2 has been in space for 125 days.
The Tianwen-2 mission will also serve as a test of China's deep space communications infrastructure ahead of the Tianwen-4 mission to Jupiter.
China's Tianwen-3 mission might deliver samples from the site of the possible biosignatures.
The China National Space Administration reported that various instruments on Tianwen-2 have been powered on and are functioning normally.
Tianwen-2 will collect between 200 and 1,000 grams of samples from 2016HO3/469219 Kamoʻoalewa using touch-and-go and anchor-and-attach methods.
The Tianwen-2 mission launched successfully in May 2023, initiating China's first asteroid sample return trip.
Tianwen-1 will attempt to observe 3i/ATLAS in October.
Tianwen-2 aims to gather between 200 and 1,000 grams of samples from asteroid 2016HO3/469219 Kamoʻoalewa.