NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test did not simply knock a small space rock off course. The 2022 kinetic impact reshaped the moonlet Dimorphos, altered its orbit far beyond expectations, and even ...
In recent years, humanity has visited several near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), including Ryugu (Hayabusa2) and Didymos (DART). However, we will need more frequent missions to start gathering more helpful ...
In 2022, humanity deliberately smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid. At the time, the goal sounded almost cinematic: test whether we could push a dangerous space rock off course if Earth were ever in ...
On 11 November at 10:30 UTC, close to the 331st apogee, SMART-1 will be in the middle of a “weak stability boundary”. In this region the spacecraft is neither in an Earth-bound orbit, nor a Moon-bound ...
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