Tag: Nasa Dart Mission

Asteroid Collision
Watch NASA DART Mission on its collision course with asteroid Dimporphos

Watch NASA DART Mission on its collision course with asteroid Dimporphos

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  • Tuesday, 27 September 2022
NASA's DART mission
NASA's DART asteroid mission: Top facts about the historic planetary defence test

After 10 months flying in space, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – the world’s first planetary defense technology demonstration – successfully hit its asteroid target on Monday.

  • Tuesday, 27 September 2022
NASA DART mission successful
Armageddon-like mission: NASA's DART spacecraft hits asteroid in first-ever earth defence test #WATCH

NASA slammed a spacecraft into an asteroid target in a first-ever attempt to move an asteroid in space, a demonstration of planetary defence exercise.

  • Tuesday, 27 September 2022
NASA set to crash a spacecraft into asteroid to safeguard Earth in future
NASA set to crash spacecraft into asteroid to protect Earth in future

DART's target is the binary, near-Earth asteroid system Didymos, composed of the roughly 780-metre diameter "Didymos" and the smaller, approximately 160-metre size "Dimorphos", which orbits Didymos.

  • Monday, 26 September 2022
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