{"id":135980,"date":"2025-09-06T11:06:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T11:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=135980"},"modified":"2025-09-06T11:06:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T11:06:28","slug":"china-plotting-mission-to-defend-earth-from-asteroids-top-space-researcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=135980","title":{"rendered":"China plotting mission to defend Earth from asteroids: top space researcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina is planning an advanced mission to strike an asteroid and alter its orbit with a spacecraft to mitigate the threat of an impact, according to a top space researcher. If successful, China will become the second country after the United States to achieve this ability.<br \/>\nWu Weiren, the chief designer of China\u2019s lunar exploration programme and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, revealed this \u201ckinetic impact demonstration mission\u201d on Friday, saying it would test the feasibility&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3324609\/china-plotting-mission-defend-earth-asteroids-top-space-researcher-says?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 is planning an advanced mission to strike an asteroid and alter its orbit with a spacecraft to mitigate the threat of an impact,&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\/135980"}],"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=135980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}