Nasa to crash its Dart spacecraft into asteroid on September 26
The spacecraft will impact a known asteroid that is not a threat to Earth.
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The spacecraft will impact a known asteroid that is not a threat to Earth.
The DART mission will hit an asteroid in less than 100 days to demonstrate a new technology that can deflect future asteroids headed towards Earth.
The Dart mission will be launched on November 24 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The DART mission will target an asteroid as engineers and astronomers aim to create a defence system able to deflect potential asteroids headed towards Earth.
By Jalpan Nanavati PHOENIX – NASA has appointed a University of Arizona professor to lead a project to track asteroids that potentially could crash into Earth. The mission involves launching a telescope into a high orbit to locate such near-Earth objects using the infrared radiation they emit. Amy Mainzer, a professor of planetary sciences, will lead a team building the Near Earth Object Surveyor, an infrared telescope that will track and characterize any asteroids that one day could crash into the planet. “We want to spot them when they are years to ideally decades away from any potentia...