The journal Nature published four papers centered on the results of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, which aimed to prove that a kinetic impactor can hit and alter the trajectory of the
MoreData analysis shows that the collision of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft with its target asteroid moonlet Dimorphos changed the asteroid’s orbit. Dimorphos, which does not pose a threat to Earth,
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NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft hit its target asteroid moonlet Dimorphos on Monday as part of the world’s first test of a planetary defense technology. NASA said Tuesday the test sought
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NASA launched its Double Asteroid Redirection Test on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Wednesday to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or
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NASA is making final preparations to launch its first planetary defense test mission, which will attempt to kinetically impact the small moonlet asteroid named Dimorphos. The space agency said Friday that its
MoreNASA and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory are in the final phases of building a spacecraft designed to demonstrate asteroid deflection for planetary defense. The space agency said Friday that its Double
MoreThe National Science Foundation (NSF) has entered into an agreement with the government of Arkansas and the University of Arkansas (U of A) to establish a cloud-based data analytics network to support
MoreNASA is facilitating observations of a binary asteroid and its small moonlet to serve as the target for the Double Asteroid Redirection Test intended to demonstrate kinetic impact for planetary defense, NASA
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