Which movie was it? 😉 Nasa to slam spacecraft into asteroid in mission to avoid future Armaggedon
A miniaturised satellite will separate from the main spacecraft, enabling images of the impact to be relayed back to Earth.A miniaturised satellite will separate from the main spacecraft, enabling images of the impact to be relayed back to Earth.Last modified on Mon 22 Nov 2021 16.33 GMT
That’s one large rock, one momentous shift in our relationship with space. On Wednesday, Nasa will launch a mission to deliberately slam a spacecraft into an asteroid to try to alter its orbit – the first time humanity has tried to interfere in the gravitational dance of the solar system.
Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission is the first attempt to test if such asteroid deflection is a realistic strategy: investigating whether a spacecraft can autonomously navigate to a target asteroid and intentionally collide with it, as well as measuring the amount of deflection. “This is the first step to actually trial a way of preventing near-Earth object impact,” said Jay Tate, the director of the
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