The pair will use a Venus flyby and two Earth flybys to fling the spacecraft on a trajectory for the outer solar system.
The pair will launch on a Long March 5 rocket and will use a Venus flyby and two Earth flybys to fling the spacecraft on a trajectory for the outer solar system before separating and setting course for their respective targets, the publication states.For now, the main spacecraft will be dedicated to investigating the Jupiter system and will orbit around the moon Callisto.
Next, Tianwen 2 will launch around 2025 and target the small near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa for a sample-return mission and a later visit to the main belt comet.that could launch as soon as 2028 and deliver to Earth the first-ever samples collected from the Red Planet.
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