Of the two big breakthroughs in space exploration in the past week, by far the greater technological achievement was the fly-past by the US New Horizons probe of Ultima Thule, some 4bn miles from Earth. But in terms of geopolitics, China’s landing of the Chang’e 4 probe on the far side of the moon was the more significant. It establishes China as a space power — and brings new competition into what has long been largely a two-horse space race between the US and Russia.
过去一周人类在太空探索方面实现了两大突破，就技术成就而言领先得多的是美国“新视野号”(New Horizons)探测器飞越距地球约40亿英里的小行星“天涯海角”(Ultima Thule)。但就地缘政治而言，manbetx3.0 “嫦娥四号”探测器着陆月球背面的意义更为重大。它确立了manbetx3.0 作为太空大国的地位，并向长期以来是美俄双强之争的太空竞赛引入了新的竞争者。
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