{"id":58779,"date":"2025-06-09T02:34:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/chinas-asteroid-and-comet-hunter-probe-unfurls-a-solar-wing\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T02:34:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:34:05","slug":"chinas-asteroid-and-comet-hunter-probe-unfurls-a-solar-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/chinas-asteroid-and-comet-hunter-probe-unfurls-a-solar-wing\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s asteroid-and-comet hunter probe unfurls a \u2018solar wing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

China\u2019s space agency has revealed its Tianwen 2 probe has unfurled a \u2018solar wing\u2019.<\/p>\n

The mission launched<\/a> in May on a course that will take it to remote rocks \u2013 the \u2018quasi moon\u2019 469219 Kamo\u02bboalewa and comet 311P.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s National Space Administration last Friday published<\/a> its first update on the mission and reported that after eight days in orbit the craft was three million kilometers from Earth. The update also mentions deployment of a \u201csolar wing\u201d \u2013 a circular array of flexible solar panels. Here\u2019s a pic of the wing which snapped by one of the probe\u2019s cameras.<\/p>\n

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The Tianwen 2 probe’s ‘Solar Wing’ – Click to enlarge<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The image above is the first China has shared from the mission.<\/p>\n

May there be many more!<\/p>\n

Hitachi tries turning its greybeards into AI agents<\/h3>\n

Japan\u2019s Hitachi Power Solutions is trying to capture the knowledge of its veteran workers so they can be preserved in an AI agent.<\/p>\n

According to Japanese outlet Nikkei<\/a>, the company first used logs and other data produce by its systems to train an AI, before interviewing its veteran workers and conducting ethnographic research.<\/p>\n