Tianwen-2 launched just over a year ago and is expected to perform a burn tomorrow (June 7) Beijing time, setting up a rendezvous with the small, rapidly-spinning asteroid Kamo'oalewa.
Andrew Jones
Tianwen-2 is a Chinese asteroid sampling mission. Asteroid 469219 Kamo'oalewa Orbit insertion is planned for June 7, 2026. 📡〰️Received with our 20m Bochum antenna.
With the 25m Dwingeloo radio telescope, we just tracked #Tianwen-2 on X-band. It was at an offset of 1.1 degrees from asteroid Kamo'oalewa, which it is going to visit. We recorded IQ data, maybe others can decode this (@destevez.net, @aang23.satdump.org?). Data at data.camras.nl/satellites/r....
