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🇨🇳 #China's #DeepSpace program

• 2028: #Tianwen3 to collect samples of #Mars 🔴, return them to Earth
• 2029: #Tianwen4 to explore #Jupiter 🪐 and its moon #Callisto
• 2030: Habitat to simulate long-duration human #spaceflight
• 2033: #Venus atmosphere sample return
• 2038: Mars 🔴 research station to study #ISRU ⚒️
• 2039: Triton, #Neptune's largest moon, subsurface explorer for its ocean 🌊

#NASA, for the first time since the 1960s, has a credible challenger.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/

Ars Technica · As NASA faces cuts, China reveals ambitious plans for planetary explorationBy Eric Berger
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@planet4589 : "When I was a kid 🧒, it was #LEO. Now, the frontier is out near the #asteroid belt, and the #Moon and #Mars are becoming part of where humanity just hangs out, maybe not yet as people, but with #robots. Meanwhile, #LEO is so normalized that it doesn’t take a #SpaceAgency to deal with it. You just call #SpaceX. Thousand years from now, perhaps more people live off Earth 🌌 than on it" cearkadia.edu.pl/jonathan-mcdo

cearkadia · Jonathan McDowell on Retiring From Harvard and Leaving the U.S. - cearkadiaJonathan McDowell is a go-to expert for all things spaceflight. Thousands of subscribers read his monthly Space Report, and far more people have seen him