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    As NASA faces cuts, China reveals ambitious plans for planetary exploration

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    1. Goregue on

      Among the planned missions are:

      – 2028: Tianwen-3 mission to collect samples of Martian soil and rocks and return them to Earth
      – 2029: Tianwen-4 mission to explore Jupiter and its moon Callisto
      – 2030: Development of a large, ground-based habitat to simulate long-duration human spaceflight
      – 2033: Mission to Venus that will return samples of its atmosphere to Earth
      – 2038: Establishment of an autonomous Mars research station to study in-situ resource utilization
      – 2039: Mission to Triton, Neptune’s largest moon, with a subsurface explorer for its ocean

    4. MrB0rk on

      I wish it was the US working on these things but it’s still really exciting to hear. Specifically the underwater explorer for Neptune’s moon.

      Imagine high def video of an ocean at the edge of our solar system. Insane to think about.

    5. DelcoPAMan on

      >Such cuts, one planetary officials told Ars, would represent an “extinction level” event for space science and exploration in the United States.

      Do the 19 year olds at “Doge” understand the implications?

    6. throw_me_away3478 on

      Man these threads are so depressing, why can’t Americans be happy the rest of the world is developing?

    7. mg-wilds on

      As much as I want space exploration for the benefit of humanity, it breaks my heart as an American that we won’t be leading the way and involved because of the current administration

    9. Striker40k on

      The United States has proven that backwoods inbreeding rednecks are going to be the ones determining the future of our country and dismantling it from within. I’m glad one country out there is still going to be pushing science forward.