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Preparedness & Self-Reliance Forum Survivalism, Livestock, Preparedness, Self Reliant Homesteading, Individual Liberty |
04-16-2019, 01:06 AM
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Asteroid impact?
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NASA Taps Elon Musk's SpaceX for 2021 Asteroid Intercept Mission
Elon Musk's SpaceX was awarded the contract to launch a future NASA mission designed to intercept an asteroid and deflect it away from the Earth to avoid a potentially catastrophic impact.
NASA confirmed SpaceX will provide launch services for the June 2021 Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission via one of its Falcon 9 rockets.
The mission is expected to cost $69 million.
The DART will use a technique called a kinetic impactor to intercept the small moon of the asteroid Didymos in October 2022. At that point, scientists estimate the asteroid will be within 11 million kilometers of Earth. The unmanned spacecraft will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
According to NASA, the Didymos asteroid is 800 meters in diameter and its moon is 150 meters in diameter. It orbits the Sun once every 2.11 Earth years.
The space agency predicts the "impact event" will occur Oct. 7, 2022.
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Source: https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/na.../15/id/911850/
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02-02-2021, 03:09 AM
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The collision of DART will happen not even with the 800-meter asteroid itself, but with its moon. It is planned that the probe will intercept the satellite on September 22, 2022 at a distance of about 11 million km from Earth. At the same time, a collision of DART with a space object should occur.
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