Aggressive China plans asteroid mission to compete against NASA DART mission. Space war brewing?


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The space war is getting intense and everyone is aiming to build a system to destroy dangerous asteroids. These anti-asteroid missions can take out any space rock threatening the Earth. In November 2021, NASA finally launched its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) which is testing a planetary defense mechanism against all near-Earth objects (NEO). But it turns out, NASA is not the only one trying to build a system like this. China has been in a rush to boost its capabilities in space. Recently it tested out a new weapon system using which it can both capture and destroy another...