Category: dart

Europe’s space agency approves the Hera anti-asteroid mission

Post author By Randall
Post date December 2, 2019
Categories In anti-asteroid, asteroid, asteroid deflection, dart, esa, europeanspaceagency, gear, hera, planetary defense, Space, Tech

[ad_1] Hera will carry two CubeSats that can fly extremely close to the asteroid’s surface before touching down. Those briefcase-sized spacecraft will act like drones, capturing vital data about the impact crater and giving scientists data including the mass of the asteroid that will help them deduce its composition. The aim, ESA said, is to […]

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 […]

SpaceX will assist NASA’s first-ever mission to redirect an asteroid

Post author By Randall
Post date April 12, 2019
Categories In asteroid, dart, Elon Musk, Nasa, Space, Spacex, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] This is batting practice. But the stakes are still high: Failure could derail NASA’s so-called “kinectic impactor technique,” success will provide the crucial data that will inform its deployment against an actual asteroid on a collision course with Earth. NASA plans to intercept Didymos when it’s within 11 million kilometres (7 million miles) of […]