Asteroid deflection: NASA's DART Mission to test planetary defense
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.
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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.