NASA to crash spacecraft into asteroid in 2022
11, May 2019
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Mains level :
- In a first, NASA will launch a spacecraft that will collide with an asteroid in 2022 to demonstrate a planetary defense technique.
- The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will get one chance to hit its target, a small moonlet in the binary asteroid system Didymos.
- The asteroid poses no threat to Earth.