China launches spacecraft it says will yield ‘groundbreaking discoveries’

China’s space agency says it has launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from a pair of asteroids near Mars and yield “groundbreaking discoveries and expand humanity’s knowledge of the cosmos.”

I just wish the European space agency and nasa were willing to cooperate with them. Space belongs to everyone and we should all work together for it, not use it as a pissing match.

More trustworthy than Space X at this point, launches should be about science and discovery, not just hubris.

If you already know you’ll make discoveries, are they really discoveries? I mean how can you know?

I hate this clickbait.
Here is the Tianwen 2 mission.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianwen-2

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|[NSF](/r/Space/comments/1kz6j7i/stub/mv33fmp “Last usage”)|[NasaSpaceFlight forum](http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com)|
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You can’t promise groundbreaking discoveries. If you predict them they arnt groundbreaking. Testing groundbreaking hypothesis, or groundbreaking experiments for hypothesis sure. But if someone promises an unpredictable result either the promise needs to be questioned or the results do. If I claimed “I can flip a coin 20 times and it will be all heads” either I’m BS-ing you, or the coin is rigged.

Or it’s just classic overhyping of government’s power/wealth/influence etc, which is whatever as long as science comes out of it without interference.