Tianwen-2 probe operating smoothly

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced on Friday that, as of the morning of June 6, the Tianwen-2 probe has been in orbit for more than eight days and is now over 3 million kilometers from Earth, with all systems functioning normally. To meet the power demands of its mission to a main-belt comet located about 375 million kilometers from the sun, the probe is equipped with circular, flexible solar wings. An image showing their successful deployment has been released. Launched on May 29 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Tianwen-2 is designed to explore and collect samples from asteroid 2016 HO3 and return them to Earth, before continuing on to conduct scientific exploration of the main-belt comet 311P.