China-Asteroid Exploration/Planetary Defense

China plans on planetary defense mission to avoid potential asteroid collisions: expert

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FILE: China - Exact Location and Date Unknown (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Milky Way
2. Animation of planets in solar system
3. Stars

Beijing, China - Nov 24, 2022 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
4. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Wu Weiren, chief designer, China's lunar exploration program (partially overlaid with shots 5-6):
"This is our future lunar exploration and asteroid exploration missions. And this is a part of our asteroid exploration mission, which is to hit an asteroid off course. For example, this small celestial body has a size of about 30 meters. We will launch two probes from the ground. The first one is for survey. And having studied it thoroughly after a period of survey, we will launch the other one, an impactor, which will follow our order to collide with the asteroid and hopefully divert it three or five centimeters away from its course. A deviation of three or five centimeters would change the trajectory by over 1,000 kilometers after around three months. The longer the time, the bigger the change of the trajectory. So, this is a very important mission. It's mainly to eliminate asteroids' impacts on human or potential threats of collision with Earth."

FILE: China - Exact Location and Date Unknown (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
++SHOTS OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++
5. Animation of impactor being launched, hitting asteroid
6. Animation of asteroid flying in space
++SHOTS OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++
7. Animation of Moon revolving around Earth
8. Animation of probe in flight, planet

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China has started asteroid exploration and is planning on a planetary defense mission to avoid potential asteroid collisions, said chief designer of China's lunar exploration program Wu Weiren.

"This is our future lunar exploration and asteroid exploration missions. And this is a part of our asteroid exploration mission, which is to hit an asteroid off course. For example, this small celestial body has a size of about 30 meters. We will launch two probes from the ground. The first one is for survey. And having studied it thoroughly after a period of survey, we will launch the other one, an impactor, which will follow our order to collide with the asteroid and hopefully divert it three or five centimeters away from its course. A deviation of three or five centimeters would change the trajectory by over 1,000 kilometers after around three months. The longer the time, the bigger the change of the trajectory. So, this is a very important mission. It's mainly to eliminate asteroids' impacts on human or potential threats of collision with Earth," Wu said.


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  • ID : 8301364
  • Dateline : Nov 24, 2022/File
  • Location : China
  • Category : science and technology
  • Duration : 1'25
  • Audio Language : Chinese/Part Mute
  • Source : China Central Television (CCTV)
  • Restrictions : No access Chinese mainland
  • Published : 2022-11-25 14:40
  • Last Modified : 2022-11-25 17:30:57
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China-Asteroid Exploration/Planetary Defense

China plans on planetary defense mission to avoid potential asteroid collisions: expert

Dateline : Nov 24, 2022/File

Location : China

Duration : 1'25

  • English


FILE: China - Exact Location and Date Unknown (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Milky Way
2. Animation of planets in solar system
3. Stars

Beijing, China - Nov 24, 2022 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
4. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Wu Weiren, chief designer, China's lunar exploration program (partially overlaid with shots 5-6):
"This is our future lunar exploration and asteroid exploration missions. And this is a part of our asteroid exploration mission, which is to hit an asteroid off course. For example, this small celestial body has a size of about 30 meters. We will launch two probes from the ground. The first one is for survey. And having studied it thoroughly after a period of survey, we will launch the other one, an impactor, which will follow our order to collide with the asteroid and hopefully divert it three or five centimeters away from its course. A deviation of three or five centimeters would change the trajectory by over 1,000 kilometers after around three months. The longer the time, the bigger the change of the trajectory. So, this is a very important mission. It's mainly to eliminate asteroids' impacts on human or potential threats of collision with Earth."

FILE: China - Exact Location and Date Unknown (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
++SHOTS OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++
5. Animation of impactor being launched, hitting asteroid
6. Animation of asteroid flying in space
++SHOTS OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++
7. Animation of Moon revolving around Earth
8. Animation of probe in flight, planet


China has started asteroid exploration and is planning on a planetary defense mission to avoid potential asteroid collisions, said chief designer of China's lunar exploration program Wu Weiren.

"This is our future lunar exploration and asteroid exploration missions. And this is a part of our asteroid exploration mission, which is to hit an asteroid off course. For example, this small celestial body has a size of about 30 meters. We will launch two probes from the ground. The first one is for survey. And having studied it thoroughly after a period of survey, we will launch the other one, an impactor, which will follow our order to collide with the asteroid and hopefully divert it three or five centimeters away from its course. A deviation of three or five centimeters would change the trajectory by over 1,000 kilometers after around three months. The longer the time, the bigger the change of the trajectory. So, this is a very important mission. It's mainly to eliminate asteroids' impacts on human or potential threats of collision with Earth," Wu said.


ID : 8301364

Published : 2022-11-25 14:40

Last Modified : 2022-11-25 17:30:57

Source : China Central Television (CCTV)

Restrictions : No access Chinese mainland

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