{"id":154803,"date":"2026-07-19T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154803"},"modified":"2026-07-19T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T12:00:08","slug":"china-plans-to-hit-an-asteroid-with-a-mach-26-projectile-in-planet-defence-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154803","title":{"rendered":"China plans to hit an asteroid with a Mach 26 projectile in planet defence test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s first planetary defence mission appears to be far more ambitious than Nasa\u2019s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart), according to a new paper outlining its plan to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid before 2030.<br \/>\nUnlike Dart, a proof-of-concept that nudged one asteroid\u2019s orbit around another, China is aiming for a more realistic planetary-defence test.<br \/>\nIt aims to directly alter an asteroid\u2019s orbit relative to Earth, \u201cor even break up its structure\u201d, according to a team led by Li Mingtao,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3360752\/china-plans-hit-asteroid-mach-26-projectile-planet-defence-test?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\u2019s first planetary defence mission appears to be far more ambitious than Nasa\u2019s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart), according to a new paper outlining&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\/154803"}],"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=154803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}