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Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will crash into asteroid moon for testing !

by Erica Watson
October 8, 2021
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NASA’s upcoming mission might match a picture from a sci-fi catastrophe film. The company declared on Sunday that its spaceship will be beyond the Earth to smash into an asteroid’s moonlet, which will modify the body’s trajectory in space. The mission, a Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), will be the leading agency’s application of the dynamic impactor system, which is a long, high-speed satellite is propelled into an asteroid’s way to adjust its movement. NASA is set to handle the mission, what it terms “the preeminent analysis for planetary protection,” on November 24, the time before Thanksgiving, to connect the double near-Earth asteroid Didymos and its moonlet, Dimorphous.

The asteroid is approximately 780 meters beyond — around 2,559 feet, according to NASA. Its moonlet is roughly 525 feet, which according to NASA, is “more symbolic of the area of asteroids that could act the most suitable vital warning to Earth.”
The DART rocket will smash into the moonlet almost head-on at around 6.6 kilometers per second, a rate that’s more electric than a shot and speedy enough to break the momentum of the moonlet by a part of 1%, NASA states. Though it seems like a little difference, this event will break the orbital phase of the moonlet by some minutes.

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DART will be driven aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft, however, it’s not going to break into the asteroid’s moon for extra 10 months. NASA announced that it will be navigating in space continuously till September 2022, when the Didymos arrangement is inside 11 million kilometers of Earth.

The mission is evocative of the 1998 sci-fi work film “Armageddon,” in which the space firm uses a pair of commoners to crash-land on an asteroid and shoot it before it ends Earth. While the central approach in the film is comparable, nevertheless, NASA has announced that neither Didymos nor Dimorphos poses a menace to Earth. This critical mission, the firm states, is so that experts can determine how efficient DART missions can be.

The range from Earth that the asteroid and its moonlet will be at the point of the crash is near enough that helioscopes will be ready to examine what occurs. A satellite that will intentionally smash into an asteroid is planning to start. The DART mission, or NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, will elevate off at 10:20 p.m. PT on November 23 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. After starting in November, NASA will examine its asteroid deflection technology in September 2022 to understand how it affects the movement of a near-Earth asteroid in space.

The purpose of this asteroid deflection technology is Dimorphos, a tiny moon circling the near-Earth asteroid Didymos. This will be the agency’s initial full-scale presentation of this kind of technology on account of planetary protection.
Near-Earth things are asteroids and comets whose rings put them within 30 million miles of Earth. Recognizing the warning of near-Earth things, or NEOs, that could probably generate serious infliction is a principal center of NASA and other space companies around the globe.

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