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i am outside where the event will be taking place this afternoon but there has been growing opposition from protesters, citing the legitimacy and the cost. and work begins to remove the tens of thousands of floral tributes left to honour the queen, in central london. in the last few hours nasa has successfully managed to test the worlds first planetary defence system by deliberately crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid. the dart mission is the first ever attempt to change the course ...

the pound remains under pressure — from market concerns about government borrowing to fund tax cuts. a state funeral is due to be held for the former japanese prime minister shinzo abe. leaders from across the world are expected to be at the service. the event will start in just under an hour but there has been growing opposition with detractors citing the cost. and honours even as engalnd and germany share six goals in their final game before the qatar, world cup. of an asteroid tra...

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Imagine a spacecraft seeing a bright point of light and intentionally flying toward it, just before it impacts, the bright point of light splits into two and the spacecraft had to choose on its own which one of those two things to hit and as far as we can tell, all of the autonomous targeting from the autonomous targeting from the camera to the processor, the camera to the processor, the computer and the programming everything worked absolutely perfectly. it hit head—on onto the men office ast...

Reassured? yes, in the case of this object, the nasa dart— reassured? yes, in the case of this object, the nasa dart mission - reassured? yes, in the case of this object, the nasa dart mission is i object, the nasa dart mission is going to come and die amorphous, its an asteroid moon going around a larger body and its about 160 metres wide, as we can see there, and if something like that were to hit earth it would cause regional damage, so over quite a wide area, something of a concern, so the...

The event will be the agency's first full-scale demonstration of deflection technology that can protect the planet.

While the nearside of the Moon is dominated by volcanic lava flows, the farside is packed with craters. Scientists now know why.

Years old. >> i know, he looked good. >> great for 90, yeah. next month, nasa will send a spacecraft into orbit that will intentionally crash into an asteroid moon. its not usually a sentence that you want to hear with a crash in space. its in the same of planetary defense. it is calls the d.a.r.t. submission. which stands for the double asteroid revolution test. with the notion of a near asteroid in space. the hope it can redirect comets near the planet that can cause major damage. good mor...