{"id":130184,"date":"2025-05-28T19:12:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T19:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130184"},"modified":"2025-05-28T19:12:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T19:12:45","slug":"chinas-tianwen-2-lifts-off-on-mission-to-bring-asteroid-samples-back-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130184","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Tianwen-2 lifts off on mission to bring asteroid samples back to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has launched an ambitious mission to bring asteroid samples back to Earth \u2013 part of broader efforts to explore the solar system and make advances in planetary science, resource utilisation and defence.<br \/>\nThe Tianwen-2 spacecraft lifted off aboard a Long March 3B rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwest China at 1.30am Beijing time on Thursday, according to the China National Space Administration.<br \/>\n\u201cAbout 18 minutes after lift-off, the rocket placed the spacecraft into a&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3312192\/chinas-tianwen-2-lifts-mission-bring-asteroid-samples-back-earth?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has launched an ambitious mission to bring asteroid samples back to Earth \u2013 part of broader efforts to explore the solar system and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130184"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}