![]() ![]() “It will confirm for us what the viability of the kinetic impactor technique is for diverting an asteroid’s orbit and determine that it remains a viable option, at least for smaller-sized asteroids, which are the most frequent impact hazard,” Lindley Johnson, NASA’s planetary defense officer, told earlier this year. ![]() More specifically, the mission is a test of NASA’s planetary defense system that could, theoretically, redirect a “hazardous asteroid” before it obliterates life on Earth by utilizing kinetic impactor technique, or shooting one or more large spacecraft into the path of an oncoming asteroid in order to change the space rock’s motion, the outlet reported.Īccording to NBC News, DART will hitch a ride aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to a near-Earth asteroid system called Didymos. Simply put, the mission is designed to “punch an asteroid in the face with a high-speed spacecraft,” Live Science reported.
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