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NASA Planetary Defense Mission Aims to Push Distant Asteroid Off Its Path - The Wall Street Journal

NASA Planetary Defense Mission Aims to Push Distant Asteroid Off Its Path - The Wall Street Journal

NASA Planetary Defense Mission Aims to Push Distant Asteroid Off Its Path - The Wall Street Journal
Nov 23, 2021 32 secs

The first planetary defense mission takes to the skies early Wednesday, when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration launches a space probe designed to deflect a distant asteroid in a test of technology that might one day save the world.

The $324 million Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, mission—a practice run for future efforts to protect Earth from collisions with asteroids and comets—is scheduled to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 1:21 a.m.

Next fall, after a journey of more than six million miles, the probe will crash at 15,000 miles an hour into Dimorphos, a tiny moonlet that orbits a larger asteroid called Didymos.

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