Nasa will crash a spacecraft into this asteroid to slow it down by 1%
3 years, 3 months ago

Nasa will crash a spacecraft into this asteroid to slow it down by 1%

India Today  

Remember the Bruce Willis starred Armageddon, where a group of rag-tag amateur astronauts launched on a mission to deflect an asteroid headed towards Earth? The DART mission will target an asteroid as engineers and astronomers aim to create a defence system able to deflect potential asteroids headed towards Earth in future. "The DART mission is Nasa’s first planetary defence test mission and will impact an asteroid to demonstrate a technique that could be used in the future to protect Earth from a potential impact. Dubbed as Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission, DART is managed under the Solar System Exploration Program by Nasa, which will achieve the kinetic impact deflection by deliberately crashing itself into the moonlet at a speed of approximately 6.6 kilometres per second. Dimorphos, 525 feet in diameter and orbit around the larger main body Didymos, which measures 780 meters and because of its proximity to Earth during 2022, astronomers will be able to compare observations from Earth-based telescopes before and after DART’s kinetic impact to determine how much the orbital period of Dimorphos changed.

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Week in tech: How a Nasa spacecraft altered an asteroid’s shape
9 months ago

Week in tech: How a Nasa spacecraft altered an asteroid’s shape

Live Mint  

A recap of what made news in the world of science and technology this week. Google fined $272 million in news copyright issue French regulators said on 20 March that tech giant Google was being fined $272 million for breaching commitments on paying media companies for reproducing their content online and using their material for its artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini …

NASA's asteroid-smashing DART mission 'completely reshaped' its target Dimorphos, scientists say
9 months, 3 weeks ago

NASA's asteroid-smashing DART mission 'completely reshaped' its target Dimorphos, scientists say

ABC  

NASA's successful mission to smash a spacecraft into a small asteroid moon in 2022 is likely to have "completely reshaped" its target, according to new research. Earth's first planetary defence system test NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test intentionally directed a spacecraft into the path of Dimorphos, a tiny moonlet of near-Earth asteroid Didymos, in September 2022. Full impact of NASA's …

Nasa’s Dart mission changed path of asteroid: ‘A defender of the planet’
2 years, 2 months ago

Nasa’s Dart mission changed path of asteroid: ‘A defender of the planet’

The Independent  

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DART Spacecraft's Impact Altered The Orbit Of Asteroid Dimorphos In Space, NASA Confirms
2 years, 2 months ago

DART Spacecraft's Impact Altered The Orbit Of Asteroid Dimorphos In Space, NASA Confirms

ABP News  

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, which collided with asteroid Dimorphos in September, 2022, has successfully changed the asteroid's motion in space, the United States space agency confirmed Wednesday. Before DART's impact with Dimorphos, the orbital period of the asteroid around its larger parent asteroid, Didymos, was 11 hours and 55 minutes. Lori Glaze, director of NASA's Planetary Science Division …

NASA says DART mission succeeded in changing the path of asteroid in space
2 years, 2 months ago

NASA says DART mission succeeded in changing the path of asteroid in space

Live Mint  

US space agency NASA confirmed on Wednesday that its recent attempt to alter the path of an asteroid happened successfully. NASA said that the orbit of 160m-wide space rock known as Dimorphos was changed when the DART probe struck its head in September this year. On Twitter, NASA confirmed that analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by …

Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results in big nudge, calls DART mission a save-the-world test
2 years, 2 months ago

Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results in big nudge, calls DART mission a save-the-world test

India TV News  

A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test. The Dart spacecraft carved a crater into the asteroid Dimorphos on Sept 26, hurling debris out into space and creating a cometlike trail of dust and rubble stretching several thousand miles. …

Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results in big nudge
2 years, 2 months ago

Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results in big nudge

Associated Press  

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test. “This mission shows that NASA is trying to be ready for whatever the universe throws at us,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said during a briefing at the …

NASA spaceship deflected asteroid in test to save Earth
2 years, 2 months ago

NASA spaceship deflected asteroid in test to save Earth

The Hindu  

NASA on Tuesday said it had succeeded in deflecting an asteroid in a historic test of humanity's ability to stop an incoming cosmic object from devastating life on Earth. The fridge-sized Double Asteroid Redirection Test impactor deliberately smashed into the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, pushing it into a smaller, faster orbit around its big brother Didymos, said NASA …

Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results in big nudge
2 years, 2 months ago

Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results in big nudge

LA Times  

The asteroid Dimorphos is seen as NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, spacecraft flies toward it on Sept. 26, 2022. A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test. “This mission shows that NASA is trying to be ready …

Huge 6000-mile long debris trail now follows asteroid Dimorphos slammed by Nasa Dart spacecraft
2 years, 2 months ago

Huge 6000-mile long debris trail now follows asteroid Dimorphos slammed by Nasa Dart spacecraft

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy New observations of an asteroid slammed by Nasa’s Dart spacecraft last week have …

Images of Nasa’s Dart spacecraft’s asteroid impact from around - and off - the world
2 years, 2 months ago

Images of Nasa’s Dart spacecraft’s asteroid impact from around - and off - the world

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. NASA hits an asteroid with a spacecraft “The sequence of images they provided in real time was …

Nasa Dart mission: Spacecraft slams into asteroid in first-ever planetary defence effort
2 years, 2 months ago

Nasa Dart mission: Spacecraft slams into asteroid in first-ever planetary defence effort

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, or Dart, slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos at 14,400 miles per …

Nasa DART mission live: Nasa successfully smashes spacecraft into asteroid in first major test
2 years, 2 months ago

Nasa DART mission live: Nasa successfully smashes spacecraft into asteroid in first major test

The Independent  

✕ Close Asteroid strike: NASA craft successfully slams into distant space rock Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Nasa‘s …

NASA DART is first step to avert asteroid strike on Earth: Indian scientists
2 years, 2 months ago

NASA DART is first step to avert asteroid strike on Earth: Indian scientists

Live Mint  

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Tuesday successfully crashed into an asteroid. "NASA's DART mission is a step towards preparing the world for a potential future asteroid strike like the one which killed dinosaurs some 66 million years ago, the chances of which are very slim in our lifetime," Indian scientists said. …

How Nasa’s Dart mission could save Earth from rogue asteroids
2 years, 2 months ago

How Nasa’s Dart mission could save Earth from rogue asteroids

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Dart is demonstrating what we call the kinetic impact technique for changing the speed of the asteroid …

When we may know if Nasa’s Dart mission successfully deflected asteroid
2 years, 2 months ago

When we may know if Nasa’s Dart mission successfully deflected asteroid

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Over the coming days, weeks, and months, scientists will begin releasing images and …

NASA's DART spacecraft hits target asteroid in first planetary defence test
2 years, 2 months ago

NASA's DART spacecraft hits target asteroid in first planetary defence test

The Hindu  

NASA's DART spacecraft successfully slammed into a distant asteroid at hypersonic speed on September 26 in a test of the world's first planetary defence system, designed to prevent a potential doomsday meteorite collision with Earth. Humanity's first attempt to alter the motion of an asteroid or any celestial body played out in a NASA webcast from the mission operations center …

NASA DART mission: Spacecraft slams into asteroid 9.6 million km away
2 years, 2 months ago

NASA DART mission: Spacecraft slams into asteroid 9.6 million km away

Live Mint  

In an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day when an asteroid threatens Earth, a NASA spacecraft crashed into an asteroid at breakneck speed early on September 27. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test, a vending machine-sized spacecraft that was launched in November, used novel navigational techniques created by the mission manager and spacecraft builder, Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory. DART …

NASA DART Spacecraft Crashes Into Asteroid In World First Planetary Defence Test History Is Made
2 years, 2 months ago

NASA DART Spacecraft Crashes Into Asteroid In World First Planetary Defence Test History Is Made

ABP News  

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft has made history by crashing into an asteroid, marking the successful completion of the world's first planetary defence test. pic.twitter.com/2qbVMnqQrD — NASA September 26, 2022 All About DART's Target Before DART’s impact with Dimorphos, the asteroid orbited Didymos, the other asteroid in the binary system. Though Dimorphos posed no threat to Earth, DART was …

NASA's DART Spacecraft To Crash Into Asteroid In A Few Hours From Now. When And How To Watch Online All You Need To Know Explained
2 years, 2 months ago

NASA's DART Spacecraft To Crash Into Asteroid In A Few Hours From Now. When And How To Watch Online All You Need To Know Explained

ABP News  

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft is set to crash into an asteroid in a few hours from now, and the whole world can watch the exciting spectacle. pic.twitter.com/XCBtdsgVV0 — Bill Nelson September 26, 2022 When And How To Watch DART's Collision With An Asteroid The world can watch the world's first planetary defence test online. Though the asteroid will …

NASA’s asteroid-deflecting DART spacecraft nears its target
2 years, 2 months ago

NASA’s asteroid-deflecting DART spacecraft nears its target

The Hindu  

Ten months after launch, NASA's asteroid-deflecting DART spacecraft neared a planned impact with its target on Monday in a test of the world's first planetary defense system, designed to prevent a doomsday collision with Earth. Dimorphos and Didymos are both tiny compared with the cataclysmic Chicxulub asteroid that struck Earth some 66 million years ago, wiping out about three-quarters of …

Webb telescope aimed at asteroid targeted by Nasa spacecraft for collision
2 years, 2 months ago

Webb telescope aimed at asteroid targeted by Nasa spacecraft for collision

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Nasa’s space telescopes, Webb and its predecessor Hubble, as well as the Lucy …

In a few hours, NASA will clash with asteroid as big as football stadium
2 years, 2 months ago

In a few hours, NASA will clash with asteroid as big as football stadium

Live Mint  

In order to demonstrate NASA's capability to defend Earth from deadly asteroids in the future, a robotic NASA spacecraft is scheduled to ram an asteroid in outer space on September 26 at a speed of 25,500 kilometres per hour. The DART spacecraft will initially detect Dimorphos, an asteroid the size of a football stadium, as a single pixel in its …

Bam! NASA spacecraft crashes into asteroid
2 years, 2 months ago

Bam! NASA spacecraft crashes into asteroid

LA Times  

Scientists react as a spacecraft crashes into an asteroid named Dimorphos. Though the impact was immediately obvious — DART’s radio signal abruptly ceased — it will take days or even weeks to determine how much the asteroid’s path was changed. Earlier Monday, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson reminded people via Twitter that, “No, this is not a movie plot.” He added …

NASA spacecraft to collide with asteroid for first time: What will happen?
2 years, 3 months ago

NASA spacecraft to collide with asteroid for first time: What will happen?

Live Mint  

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the world waits with bated breath as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission is set to clash with an asteroid on Monday, 26 September. “We are moving an asteroid,” CNN quoted Tom Statler, NASA program scientist for the DART mission. Meanwhile, Dimorphos measures 525 feet across, and its name means “two forms.” At …

Why is a NASA spacecraft crashing into an asteroid?
2 years, 3 months ago

Why is a NASA spacecraft crashing into an asteroid?

The Hindu  

In the first-of-its kind, save-the-world experiment, NASA is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away. Dart, the Impactor The Johns Hopkins lab took a minimalist approach in developing Dart — short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test — given that it’s essentially a battering ram and faces sure destruction. Another spacecraft, Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, is loaded into …

Explained: NASA's 'save the world' experiment which will see a spacecraft crash into an asteroid
2 years, 3 months ago

Explained: NASA's 'save the world' experiment which will see a spacecraft crash into an asteroid

Firstpost  

NASA plans to crash a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away. The aim is just to nudge the asteroid into a slightly tighter orbit around its companion space rock — demonstrating that if a killer asteroid ever heads our way, we’d stand a fighting chance of diverting it Cape Canaveral: In the first-of-its-kind, save-the-world experiment, NASA is about to …

EXPLAINER: Why a NASA spacecraft will crash into an asteroid
2 years, 3 months ago

EXPLAINER: Why a NASA spacecraft will crash into an asteroid

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. DART, THE IMPACTOR Johns Hopkins …

Why a NASA spacecraft will crash into an asteroid Monday
2 years, 3 months ago

Why a NASA spacecraft will crash into an asteroid Monday

LA Times  

This illustration depicts NASA’s DART probe, foreground right, and Italian Space Agency’s LICIACube, bottom right, before impact with the asteroid Dimorphos, left. DART, the impactor Johns Hopkins took a minimalist approach in developing DART — short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test — given that it’s essentially a battering ram and faces sure destruction. An illustration depicts NASA’s DART probe on …

NASA’s DART asteroid-hunting mission can turn disastrous…: Read here why
2 years, 3 months ago

NASA’s DART asteroid-hunting mission can turn disastrous…: Read here why

Live Mint  

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, the world’s first mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards, will hit a target asteroid on 26 September. An HT Tech report cited, in their 1964 book Islands in Space: The Challenge of the Planetoids, astronomers Dandridge Cole and Donald Cox envisioned manoeuvring asteroids to serve as the ultimate …

NASA spacecraft to collide with asteroid on this date. How to watch it live?
2 years, 3 months ago

NASA spacecraft to collide with asteroid on this date. How to watch it live?

Hindustan Times  

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration will conduct a defence test against any imaginable asteroid collision with Earth on September 26. The US space agency claims it to be the world’s first planetary defence test – Double Asteroid Redirection Test – and plans to livestream for the public on its media platforms. The DART mission is a key test that …

When and how Nasa’s Dart mission will practise saving Earth from deadly asteroids, and how you can watch it live.
2 years, 4 months ago

When and how Nasa’s Dart mission will practise saving Earth from deadly asteroids, and how you can watch it live.

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Launched on 24 November 2021, Dart used solar electric propulsion to fly a trajectory that will intercept …

NASA to crash spacecraft on asteroid to divert its movement: Where to watch
2 years, 4 months ago

NASA to crash spacecraft on asteroid to divert its movement: Where to watch

Live Mint  

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, the world’s first mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards, will hit a target asteroid on 26 September. DART will provide important data to help better prepare for an asteroid that might pose an impact hazard to Earth, should one ever be discovered, NASA said about the mission in …

Nasa to crash its Dart spacecraft into asteroid on September 26
2 years, 4 months ago

Nasa to crash its Dart spacecraft into asteroid on September 26

India Today  

Travelling in the darkness of space, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test is ready to rendezvous with its target and on September 26 engineers will intentionally crash it into an asteroid to test a unique technology that could be employed if an asteroid is hurtling towards Earth. The spacecraft will impact a known asteroid that is not a threat to Earth …

Nasa spacecraft set to hit asteroid opens eyes in space, beams back first images
3 years ago

Nasa spacecraft set to hit asteroid opens eyes in space, beams back first images

India Today  

Two weeks after it launched from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft has come to life in space. The probe beamed back first images of deep space as it heads to asteroid Dimorphos to demonstrate a new planetary defence system. OPENING EYES IN SPACE The spacecraft opened the circular door covering the aperture …

NASA launches spacecraft to test asteroid defense concept
3 years, 1 month ago

NASA launches spacecraft to test asteroid defense concept

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — NASA launched a spacecraft Tuesday night on a mission to smash into an asteroid and test whether it would be possible to knock a speeding space rock off course if one were to threaten Earth. The DART spacecraft, short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket …

NASA launches DART spacecraft that will deliberately crash into asteroid. Here's why
3 years, 1 month ago

NASA launches DART spacecraft that will deliberately crash into asteroid. Here's why

India TV News  

Highlights The DART mission lifted off at 1.21 a.m. EST It is the first mission to test technologies for preventing impact on Earth by a hazardous asteroid "Asteroid Dimorphos: we're coming for you!" NASA said on Twitter The DART mission lifted off at 1.21 a.m. EST, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, NASA …

NASA launches Double Asteroid Redirection Test aimed at deflecting asteroid
3 years, 1 month ago

NASA launches Double Asteroid Redirection Test aimed at deflecting asteroid

ABC  

NASA's one-way mission to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid has blasted off from California. Key points: This mission is to demonstrate the world's first planetary defence system The aim is to deflecting an asteroid from a potential collision with Earth DART will test its ability to alter an asteroid's trajectory with sheer kinetic force This mission is to demonstrate …

NASA launches DART spacecraft to test asteroid defense concept
3 years, 1 month ago

NASA launches DART spacecraft to test asteroid defense concept

LA Times  

The DART spacecraft, atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, is seen Tuesday from Simi Valley after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base. NASA launched a spacecraft Tuesday night on a mission to smash into an asteroid and test whether it would be possible to knock a speeding space rock off course if one were to threaten Earth. The DART spacecraft, …

Explained: Why is Nasa intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid
3 years, 1 month ago

Explained: Why is Nasa intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid

India Today  

When the Dart mission launches on November 24, scientists will be on their toes to attempt a first of its kind event in deep space - crashing a spacecraft purposely in an asteroid. As the spacecraft hits the celestial object, scientists are hoping it will change the orbit of the asteroid and demonstrate a unique planetary defence system. The Didymos …

Nasa prepares to launch spacecraft that will crash into asteroid and change its orbit in first ‘planetary defence’ test
3 years, 1 month ago

Nasa prepares to launch spacecraft that will crash into asteroid and change its orbit in first ‘planetary defence’ test

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Nasa is preparing to launch its first-ever “planetary defence” mission to crash a …

NASA aims to defend the planet by using its DART mission to destroy an asteroid this month
3 years, 1 month ago

NASA aims to defend the planet by using its DART mission to destroy an asteroid this month

Firstpost  

The target asteroid, Dimorphos, which means “two forms” in Greek, is about 525 feet in diameter and orbits around a larger asteroid named Didymos, “twin” in Greek. While the Earth faces no such immediate danger, NASA plans to crash a spacecraft travelling at a speed of 15,000 miles per hour into an asteroid next year in a test of “planetary …

Nasa's spacecraft to deflect asteroid goes into final checks, launch in late November
3 years, 2 months ago

Nasa's spacecraft to deflect asteroid goes into final checks, launch in late November

India Today  

Days after scientists launched a probe towards trojan asteroid swarms surrounding Jupiter, Nasa is gearing up for a major asteroid mission. Scientists will launch the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft to demonstrate the capability of deflecting an incoming asteroid towards Earth. The spacecraft reached Vandenberg Space Force Base from where it will be launched towards a binary asteroid system Didymos, …

Nasa names asteroid it will use as target practice to keep planet safe from impact
4 years, 6 months ago

Nasa names asteroid it will use as target practice to keep planet safe from impact

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Dimorphos, which means ‘two forms,’ reflects the status of this object as the first celestial body to …

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