# CNSA presents a Jupiter and Uranus mission: two spacecraft on one Long March 5 around 2030

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Date: 21 Sep 2022
About: [CNSA](https://technooptimist.io/companies/cnsa.md) · [Tianwen-4](https://technooptimist.io/spaceflight/tianwen-4.md)
Original source: https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/tianwen-4-jupiter-and-uranus-two-spacecraft-one-rocket

Wang Qiong of CNSA's Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering Center presented Tianwen-4 at the International Astronautical Congress in Paris. One Long March 5 would launch a large Jupiter spacecraft that will orbit Callisto and a small probe of a few hundred kilograms that heads on to Uranus. A Callisto lander considered earlier was dropped from the plan.

## Key facts

- Route: one Venus flyby and two Earth flybys before the craft separate.
- The Uranus probe may also fly past an asteroid on the way.
- Science goals were still under consideration.

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