DART probe, the size of a car, will slam into the Dimorphos ‘moonlet’ at more than 24,000 kilometres per an hour in an attempt to knock it off course.
The historic DART mission is set to launch late Tuesday.
It will be called Dimorphos, and is approximately the size of the Great Pyramid of Egypt
A group of planetary defense advocates is asking European governments to fund a mission to a near Earth asteroid, three years after a similar mission failed to win approval.
A mission to deflect asteroids that might threaten Earth has begun its final design and assembly phase, according to a news release.
The Hera spacecraft mission, proposed by the European Space Agency, is heading to a binary asteroid to support NASA’s planetary defense plan against potential asteroid collision.
An upcoming mission designed to test out the deflection of a large asteroid has hit a bit of a snag.
