China plans to hit an asteroid with a Mach 26 projectile in planet defence test
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"China plans to hit an asteroid with a Mach 26 projectile in planet defence test" is generating significant coverage in the Science category, with 9 articles from 8 distinct sources tracked by PULSE so far.
Outlets currently covering the story include UA.NEWS, Inshorts, Global Times and starlust.org. PULSE measures a story's velocity from how quickly new articles appear and how many independent newsrooms join the coverage.
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Coverage (9)
- China is preparing a mission to alter an asteroid's trajectory UA.NEWS · 1d ago
- Why is China planning to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid at 9 km/sec? | A second aircraft will observe the asteroid Inshorts · 1d ago
- China eyes first kinetic impact test for asteroid defense, targeting smaller and less predictable asteroids than NASA’s DART Global Times · 1d ago
- China plans to surpass NASA’s DART mission by smacking an asteroid at 26 times the speed of sound starlust.org · 1d ago
- How is China hunting hidden space rocks that could ‘devastate a small country’? South China Morning Post · 1d ago
- China is building an asteroid monitoring network that will use telescopes and satellites for planetary defence: Here’s how it will work The Times of India · 1d ago
- China plans to hit a 30-meter asteroid at more than 9 kilometers per second and will use two spacecraft to find out if it can change the rock's trajectory during its passage about 7 million kilometers from Earth. CPG Click Oil and Gas · 1d ago
- China plans bold asteroid collision test to outpace NASA's DART mission Interesting Engineering · 1d ago
- China plans to hit an asteroid with a Mach 26 projectile in planet defence test South China Morning Post · 1d ago
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