{"id":781723,"date":"2026-07-06T02:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T02:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/781723\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T02:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T02:08:08","slug":"chinas-tianwen-2-probe-close-enough-to-start-tests-on-asteroid-1-billion-km-away-cctv-reports-wkzo-everything-kalamazoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/781723\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Tianwen-2 probe close enough to start tests on asteroid 1 billion km away, CCTV reports | WKZO | Everything Kalamazoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, July 6 (Reuters) \u2013 China\u2019s state space administration announced \u200bon Monday its \u200cTianwen-2 probe is now close enough to asteroid 2016H03 to \u200cbegin \u200binvestigating it, \u2060state broadcaster \u2060CCTV reported, after a journey of 400 days for over \u200b1 billion km (621.3 million miles).<\/p>\n<p>KEY \u2060DETAILS:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Probe \u2060was launched on \u200bMay 29, 2025, \u200band has reached a \u200cdistance of 20,000 km from the asteroid.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Tianwen-2 will \u2060examine the asteroid\u2019s morphology, material composition and internal \u2060structure \u200cwith a \u2060view to sampling \u200bat \u200ca later date.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u200bIt \u2060has already taken images of the asteroid.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Joe Cash; Editing by Christian \u200bSchmollinger)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING, July 6 (Reuters) \u2013 China\u2019s state space administration announced \u200bon Monday its \u200cTianwen-2 probe is now close&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[64,63,128],"class_list":["post-781723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}