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There is now a race involving government funded programs and universities to reach the asteroid Apophis, a 375-meter diameter asteroid only discovered in 2004 but that will reach a nearest distance of 32,000 kilometers (20,000 miles) from Earth on April 13, 2029.
But it is also possible that China is developing a mission to this asteroid to advance its capabilities for “Planetary Defense.”
[image: https://geostrategy-direct.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/apophis.jpg]A Chinese mission proposal to investigate the asteroid Apophis, most likely during its April 2029 pass by Earth, would utilize a Sun-Earth Lagrangian point, of civil-military dual use importance to the People’s Liberation Army. / Via Andrew Jones on X
Projects to investigate Apophis, or to conduct a close flyby, are underway from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA) in cooperation with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), plus a coalition of universities in China.
The Chinese coalition, according to briefing slides revealed on the X page of eminent Chinese space journalist Andrew Jones, is led by the Key State Laboratory of Lunar and Planetary Sciences (SKL Planets) at the Macau University of Science and Technology, with Sun Yat Sen University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beihang University, and the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory.
These slides indicate that the Chinese mission would just be a “flyby” to measure the “fundamental properties,” and “investigate the effects of planet close encounters” with the asteroid, such as its “rotational status…before and after Earth encounter.”
The mission would involve launching a small satellite into Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) and then using chemical and ion (electric) propulsion to reach a point in the Earth-Sun L-1 Lagrangian Point (an area of equal gravitational pull) to station the satellite for its flyby mission.
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*By** Richard Fisher*
There is now a race involving government funded programs and universities to reach the asteroid Apophis, a 375-meter diameter asteroid only discovered in 2004 but that will reach a nearest distance of 32,000 kilometers (20,000 miles) from Earth on April 13, 2029.
But it is also possible that China is developing a mission to this asteroid to advance its capabilities for “Planetary Defense.”
[image: https://geostrategy-direct.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/apophis.jpg]A Chinese mission proposal to investigate the asteroid Apophis, most likely during its April 2029 pass by Earth, would utilize a Sun-Earth Lagrangian point, of civil-military dual use importance to the People’s Liberation Army. / Via Andrew Jones on X
Projects to investigate Apophis, or to conduct a close flyby, are underway from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA) in cooperation with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), plus a coalition of universities in China.
The Chinese coalition, according to briefing slides revealed on the X page of eminent Chinese space journalist Andrew Jones, is led by the Key State Laboratory of Lunar and Planetary Sciences (SKL Planets) at the Macau University of Science and Technology, with Sun Yat Sen University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beihang University, and the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory.
These slides indicate that the Chinese mission would just be a “flyby” to measure the “fundamental properties,” and “investigate the effects of planet close encounters” with the asteroid, such as its “rotational status…before and after Earth encounter.”
The mission would involve launching a small satellite into Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) and then using chemical and ion (electric) propulsion to reach a point in the Earth-Sun L-1 Lagrangian Point (an area of equal gravitational pull) to station the satellite for its flyby mission.
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