WATCH NASA DART MISSION CRASH INTO TV

Detecting the threat of near-Earth objects, or NEOs, that could potentially cause grave harm is a primary focus of NASA and other space organizations around the world.

Near-Earth objects are asteroids and comets with orbits that place them within 30 million miles (48 million kilometers) of Earth.

It also will be the first time humans have altered the dynamics of a solar system body in a measurable way, according to the European Space Agency. This will be the agency’s first full-scale demonstration of this type of technology on behalf of planetary defense. The mission target is Dimorphos, a small moon orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Didymos. The Falcon 9’s booster returned for a vertical landing on Earth.īut the true test for this asteroid deflection technology will come in September 2022, when the spacecraft reaches its destination, to see how it impacts the motion of a near-Earth asteroid in space.

WATCH NASA DART MISSION CRASH INTO TV

Live coverage of the event aired on NASA TV and the agency’s site. ET November 24) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, lifted off at 10:21 p.m. A NASA spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid has successfully launched.

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