Essay: New results from NASA’s DART planetary defence mission confirm we could deflect deadly asteroids
ELEANOR K SANSOM, of Curtin University in Australia, looks at what the results of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission have revealed…
Asteroid’s path altered in NASA’s first test of planetary defence system
Reuters The spacecraft that NASA deliberately crashed into an asteroid last month succeeded in nudging the rocky moonlet out of its natural orbit – the first time humanity has altered the motion of a celestial body – NASA officials announced on Tuesday. The $US330 million proof-of-concept mission, which was seven years in development, also marked […]
NASA’s DART spacecraft hits target asteroid in test of planetary defence system
Reuters Hurtling through the solar system at hypersonic speed on Monday, NASA’s DART spacecraft slammed itself into a distant asteroid in a test of the world’s first planetary defence system, designed to prevent a potential doomsday meteorite collision with Earth. The finale to the suicide spaceflight, humanity’s first attempt to alter the motion of an […]
Essay: In a world first, NASA’s DART mission is about to smash into an asteroid. What will we learn?
In an article first published on The Conversation, STEVEN TINGAY, John Curtin Distinguished Professor (Radio Astronomy) at Australia’s Curtin University, looks at what to expect from NASA’s DART mission…
Essay: Could we really deflect an asteroid heading for Earth?
GAIL ILES, a senior lecturer in physics at RMIT University in Melbourne, explains NASA’s latest DART mission…