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...
May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
... won’t escape JWST’s watchful gaze. JWST will support the upcoming NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), which will slam a probe into one of a binary asteroid pair, hoping to change its orbit just a little...
04 February 2022
NASA’s real-life “Don’t Look Up” programme
... at a time when the agency’s Planetary Defense efforts are on the rise. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) - the world’s first full-scale mission to test a technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid impacts...
24 March 2023
Close approach to Earth and Moon of newly discovered asteroid
... that out. One example of international efforts to protect Earth from potential threats from outer space is NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirect) mission launched in 2021 with the intention of changing the orbit of an asteroid. The spacecraft...
