DART

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• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the first-of-its-kind, save-the-world experiment is going to destroy a small, harmless asteroid.
  • The asteroid's name is Dimorphos, it is about 7 million miles (9.6 million kilometres) from Earth.
• NASA's press release states that the experiment is about asteroid deflection, not disruption; this experiment isn’t going to blow up the asteroid.
• DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) is the first planetary defence test mission.
  • It will test the new technology to protect the earth in case an asteroid heads towards Earth.
  • It has a single instrument: a camera used for navigating, targeting and chronicling the final action.
  • The technology would allow a spacecraft to crash into an asteroid and change its route.
  • It will be a suicide mission and the spacecraft will be destroyed in the collision with the asteroid.

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-sci-tech/why-a-nasa-spacecraft-will-crash-into-an-asteroid-8167425/

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