NASA spacecraft to test asteroid defence concept

A NASA mission crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, to test whether it could be thrown off course. The DART spacecraft, short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, was launched as part of a $330 million project to determine whether Earth can be saved from rocks from space.

Source: NASA

NASA has been busy in recent days, launching rockets into space.

First is James Webb's company, a $9 billion telescope designed to look into the past to understand how our solar system formed.

And now, there is DART which stands for Double Asteroid Redirection Test.

 

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