Space expedition – Deflecting an asteroid: the life-size test is approaching

– Deflecting an asteroid: the life-size test is approaching

At the end of September, a small spacecraft will collide with an asteroid. The idea is to develop a technique to protect against future threats.

Michel De Muelenaere – “The Evening”

Posted today at 10:05 a.m.

The target is an asteroid 160 meters in diameter.

ESA

It is undoubtedly the fact of constantly having one’s head in the stars that so stimulates the imagination of experts in astrophysics and space engineering. The mission launched on November 24, 2021 via a Space X Falcon 9 rocket is close to the palm of the genre: Dart, like “Double asteroid redirect test”, but also as a dart in English.

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