Published 2 years ago

Success! NASA's first planetary defense test hits asteroid.

Summary by Ground News

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) made contact with the asteroid Didymos on Monday evening. The spacecraft journeyed for a little over 10 months to test if it would be possible to save Earth from future hazardous asteroids or comets by booting them off course. DART is about 11 billion pounds smaller than its target, the craft aimed to alter the asteroid's course.

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Science Daily

NASA's DART mission hits asteroid in first-ever planetary defense test

After 10 months flying in space, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) -- the world's first planetary defense technology demonstration -- successfully impacted its asteroid target on Monday, the agency's first attempt to move an asteroid in space.

2 years ago·United States

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El Periódico

Misión DART de NASA: Cinco claves del primer ensayo de defensa interplanetaria de la historia

Esta madrugada, una nave espacial del tamaño de un coche se estrellará contra un asteroide 10 millones de veces más grande para intentar desviar su rumbo

2 years ago·Barcelona, Spain

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The Citizen

NASA DART hits asteroid in world's first planetary defence test

The small NASA DART spacecraft successfully collided with the distant Dimorphos asteroid at hypersonic speed on Monday, 26 September 2022.

2 years ago·South Africa

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EL ESPAÑOL

Planetary Defense: How the success of DART confirms NASA's ambitious plan against asteroids

NASA, as part of the first Planetary Defense mission, has managed to crash a ship into an asteroid to divert its trajectory.

2 years ago·Spain

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Philstar Global

'A new era': NASA strikes asteroid in key test of planetary defense

NASA's DART spaceship struck the asteroid Dimorphos in a historic test of humanity's ability to prevent a cosmic object from devastating life on Earth.

2 years ago·Manila, Philippines

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WND

NASA crashes spacecraft into asteroid in first ever test of planetary defense

NASA astronaut Nicole Mann gives a thumbs up from inside the Orion mockup, Wednesday, July 10, 2019, at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. (NASA photo by Bill Ingalls)WND is now on Trump's Truth Social! Follow us @WNDNews(TIMES OF ISRAEL) -- NASA on Monday accomplished a feat humanity never before attempted: deliberately smacking a spacecraft into an asteroid to slightly deflect its orbit, in a key test of our ability to stop cosmic …

2 years ago·Medford, United States

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