Chinese Researchers Consider Rockets to Defend Against Asteroids
July 15, 2021
In this Nov. 24, 2020, file photo, a Long March-5 rocket carrying the Chang'e 5 lunar mission lifts off at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Wenchang in southern China's Hainan Province. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
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Chinese researchers say they believe a group of rockets could be used to change the path of
asteroids that might pass near Earth.
A team at China’s National Space Science Center carried out
simulations on the proposed asteroid defense system.
The scientists said their research suggests 23 rockets of China’s biggest kind of rockets could force a large asteroid to change direction. They said the rockets could move the asteroid from its path by a distance of 1.4 times Earth’s