... NEOs pose a potential impact hazard, new missions are being devised that test a variety of mitigation strategies. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) mission is designed to impact a NEO at high velocity, producing a change in its orbit and...
... arrive approximately four months after AIM. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) probe will home in on the smaller asteroid moon – then crash straight into it at about 6km/s. DART, designed by the Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics...
...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 - launched last November will deflect a known...