"Wanna partner up..? You're gonna make a TON of money -- I GUARANTEE it..!! No foolin'..! I won't steal your tech, or nuttin' like dat, NO WAY..! Dis heeya is da NEW, NICE China talkin' kapiche..? GOLDEN asteroids, split 50/50, whaddya say..?!"
Posted on 04/18/2019 5:38:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin
China plans to launch an ambitious asteroid exploration mission and has invited collaborators to put their experiments on the probes, space agency officials said Thursday.
The 10-year mission will involve a probe sent to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples, said Liu Jizhong, head of China's Exploration and Space Engineering Centre.
After the sample collection from the 2016 HO3 asteroid, the probe will return to Earth orbit where it will split into two.
A capsule carrying the samples will return to Earth's surface, while a separate module will approach and orbit the comet 133P.
A similar call was made for the lunar probe Chang'e-6, whose launch date will depend on the success of its predecessor, Chang'e-5, which will launch by the end of this year.
France's National Centre for Space Studies said last month that Chang'e-6 would carry French experiments.
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Just need a few idiots who’ll let them steal their tech
Why are they interested in doing this? I can guess the answer.
Exactly
"Wanna partner up..? You're gonna make a TON of money -- I GUARANTEE it..!! No foolin'..! I won't steal your tech, or nuttin' like dat, NO WAY..! Dis heeya is da NEW, NICE China talkin' kapiche..? GOLDEN asteroids, split 50/50, whaddya say..?!"
Asteroid probe?
Sounds like Buttigieg would be interested.
He wants to probe Uranus
Sounds like Buttigieg would be interested.
That would be a Uranus probe.
Yep, that's what it's about.
Nothing but a tech rip-off scheme.
Sounds like Buttigieg would be interested.
The Mare is already married to a buttplugger ...
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