11 October 2021
Disrupting Earth-bound asteroids with nukes is “very effective”, new study says
... from its course. This technique is well-known and will be the focus of real targets when NASA’s DART mission reaches its target – a binary asteroid system comprised of Didymos and its small moonlet asteroid Dimorphos...
30 June 2019
Asteroid day 2019
... Earth - programmes that both NASA and ESA have initiated with their Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) and HERA missions respectively. Just this week, astronomers discovered a car-size asteroid hours before it collided...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
... the Solar System, potentially even in creating the preconditions for life on Earth. The sheer size of the DART impact dwarfs anything that can be replicated in a terrestrial laboratory. Extrapolations by more than 15 orders of magnitude are required...
November 2016
Turning the Solar System into our backyard
... launching these CanSats, the T-Minus CanSat launcher. Currently, T-Minus is developing the second product: the T-Minus DART. With this rocket system, weighing only 35 kg fully loaded, payloads can be launched to 120 km altitude, thereby measuring...
September 2016
Preparing the future: the right technology at the right time
... low-gravity operations, while exploring the Didymos binary asteroid system and monitoring the impact of NASA’s DART spacecraft with the smaller of the two bodies. CubeSats ESA’s first technology-testing CubeSat was GomX...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... the surface of the paired Didymos asteroids when they come relatively close to the Earth in 2022. NASA’s ‘DART’ spaceship will then attempt to collide with the smaller of the paired asteroids in order to alter its trajectory...
