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NASA-built spacecraft to deliberately crash into asteroid in test mission

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A NASA-built spacecraft will deliberately crash into an asteroid as part of a test mission later this month. The aim is to demonstrate that dangerous incoming rocks can be deflected by deliberately smashing into them. The spacecraft, known as Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart), is expected to collide with a 170-metre wide (560ft) asteroid named Dimorphos on 26 September. It will be the first full-scale demonstration of asteroid deflection technology.

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