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The first-of-its-kind mission will head to the asteroid Dimorphos in the Didymos system and test kinetic impactors to see if an asteroid’s trajectory can be altered.

A NASA spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid is preparing to launch this week.

The US space agency is all set to launch its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft, intended to deliberately crash into an asteroid, on Wednesday. This DART mission is targeted to launch at 1:21 am EST (11:51 am India time) on November 24, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, NASA said in a statement.

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NASA is preparing to launch a spacecraft designed to strike an asteroid.

The DART mission is NASA's demonstration of kinetic impactor technology, impacting an asteroid to adjust its speed and path.

The European Hera mission will follow NASAs DART asteroid-deflecting spacecraft to the binary space rock Didymos and detail the aftermath of DARTs collision with the smaller of the two asteroids, Dimorphos. It will even attempt to peek inside the asteroid duo in a scientific first.

The first operation to ever collide a spacecraft with an asteroid is set to launch Wednesday (Nov. 24) and will see whether humans can deflect a potentially disastrous cosmic impact.

The moonlet the asteroid wants to move will only be visible in its sensors an hour before impact.

NASA’s DART mission to redirect a non-threatening asteroid is set to launch later this week. Here’s what you need to know about this historic