Tuesday, November 23, 2021

NASA to launch test mission of asteroid-deflecting spacecraft

DART spacecraft

A SpaceX rocket was set to blast off from California late Tuesday as NASA seeks to demonstrate a first-of-its-kind planetary defence system, designed to deflect an asteroid from a potential doomsday collision with Earth.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/nasa-dart-asteroid-mission-1.6259224?cmp=rss

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