Category: asteroid impact deflection assessment

NASA and ESA will team up to deflect Earth-bound asteroids

Post author By Randall
Post date September 3, 2019
Categories In aida, asteroid, asteroid impact deflection assessment, dart, double asteroid impact test, esa, gear, hera, liciacube, Nasa, Science, Space, Tech, Video

[ad_1] NASA will provide the collider, the Double Asteroid Impact Test (DART). It should launch in summer 2021 and will smack into the smaller of the two Didymos asteroids at about 14,764MPH. An Italian cubesat, LICIACube, will study the moment of impact. After that, the ESA will launch a Hera probe in October 2024 to […]