China has laid out plans to send probes to Jupiter and the far side of the moon as part of its goal to become one of the world's top three space programmes by 2030, the deputy head of the space programme said on Tuesday
Launching a white paper that lays out China’s space doctrine for the next five years, Wu Yanhua, Deputy Administrator of China National Space Administration, said that “for the first time China is declaring itself a space power”.
The document set out a number of ambitious objectives and timetables as China takes aim at reaching the forefront of space exploration, having only conducted its first crewed space mission in 2003.
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