TRIBUNTRAVEL.COM – NASA Get ready to destroy the asteroids that are about to hit planet earth.
The plane with a speed of 23,000 kilometers per hour will soon be thrown into space to prevent the collision.
The £240 million mission is expected to start in September 2022.
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Given, new technology is being developed to throw a half-ton spacecraft at an asteroid called Dimorphos, reported by Mirror.co.ukMonday (9/5/2022).
The concept is similar to the recent Netflix film “Don’t Look Up”, where scientists try to warn the public about the impending danger of an asteroid and the US government starts launching spacecraft to it.
The DART mission, which stands for multiple asteroid diversion tests, was developed by Andy Cheng, chief scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory together with a senior researcher.
Dr. Cheng told Financial Times“It feels so good like a dream come true for something we have thought for 20 years to actually happen.”
Dr Cheng speculates that the DART impact could change the shape of the asteroid.
Fortunately, none of the approximately 27,000 near-Earth objects identified are considered to carry a significant risk to planet Earth.
However, the findings of the DART mission can provide invaluable information should a threat emerge.
Dr Cheng said, “In a dire emergency, we can use the spacecraft under construction for other purposes, implement a new guidance system and send it to hit the asteroid. We may need more than one spacecraft.”
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The main DART craft was launched into space last November.
It will measure and monitor the impact and another spacecraft, sent by the European Space Agency in 2026, will analyze each element of the impact.
NASA said, “DART is the first mission dedicated to investigating and demonstrating a method of asteroid deflection by changing the motion of asteroids in space through kinetic collisions.”
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