by Speedinet | Sep 27, 2022 | asteroids, DART, Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Nasa, Science, spacecraft
The mission is Nasa’s first demonstration of the agency’s planetary-defense initiative to protect Earth from the possibility of a hazardous collision with an asteroid. by Speedinet | Sep 25, 2022 | DART, Dimorphos, HERA, Nasa, Science
A robotic NASA spacecraft is programmed to ram itself into a distant asteroid at 14,000 miles per hour (25,500 kilometers per hour) in deep space to demonstrate the agency’s future ability to defend Earth from hazardous space rocks. 