DART NASA: Spacecraft successfully slams into an asteroid

A NASA spacecraft has intentionally slammed into an asteroid in humanity's first test of planetary defense.

The goal of the spacecraft, in addition to impact, is to affect the motion of an asteroid in space, but it will take time for scientists to determine if the asteroid's orbit changed. "For the first time ever, we will measurably change the orbit of a celestial body in the universe," said Robert Braun, head of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory's Space Exploration Sector in Laurel, Maryland.Near-Earth objects are asteroids and comets with orbits that place them within 30 million miles of Earth.

The briefcase-size CubeSat deployed from the spacecraft and traveled behind it to record what happens. "Sometimes we describe it as running a golf cart into a great pyramid or something like that," Chabot said. "But for Dimorphos, this really is about asteroid deflection, not disruption."

Wow, so believable 🤓‼️

Not as spectacular as LANDING what was built as an orbiting spacecraft, on an asteroid, 20 years ago! Checkout the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft. Navigation courtesy of my mom's former coworkers at JPL.

SpaceForceDoD do yo thing. Merica.

Looks like a black and white picture of a scotch egg lmao 🤣 nice try Nasa. So fake

Ironically enough, the pilot was an Asian guy

Yeah we've seen this movie before😂we know how this ends 😂

Reminds me of when the Hulk charged toward Surtur in 'Thor: Ragnarok'. Big Monster won. 😁

Congrats to NASA 🎉🎉. They did it!!

I wonder what will come if this

Damn and here I hoped for the end

Cool, let's let a cell phone company put the project together next time 😂

Was the rocket electric?

We have bigger problems here

Fake news

Crazy how they can learn how to throw rockets at each other and not big ass rocks that can potentially wipe us all out

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