China has ambitions to bring spacecraft to the edge of the solar system
The desire to "reach" the most remote regions of the solar system was made on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the country's founding to demonstrate the position of a space powerhouse.. In a recent statement in China Space News , China says it will send a spaceship to space 100 astronomical units away, or 100 times the distance from Earth to the Sun or 15 billion kilometers. The main mission of the ship is to perform activities of discovery and scientific experiments on the edge of the solar system. It will focus on phenomena such as "anomalous cosmic rays" and "hydrogen walls" at the boundary between the Chinese astronomers are evaluating the feasibility of the project and believe it could be deployed in 2049, on the 100th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. "China's space industry has the potential to achieve this goal," emphasized Wu Weiren, the chief designer of the moon exploration program Wu