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Space Mission to Quasi-Moon Asteroid
China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft is on a mission to the near-Earth asteroid Kamo‘oalewa. The journey aims to bring back samples in 2027, marking China’s first such endeavor.
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Scientific American
The Tianwen-2 spacecraft is slowly closing in on the near-Earth asteroid Kamo‘oalewa, on a mission that would bring China’s first asteroid samples back to Earth in 2027
2026-06-11 13:30 UTC