All posts by David Barnhart
NASA successfully shifted an asteroid’s orbit – DART spacecraft crashed into and moved Dimorphos

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. NASA recently crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in an attempt to push the rocky traveler off its trajectory. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test – or DART – was meant to test one potential strategy for preventing an…
NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid – photos show the last moments of the successful DART mission

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. In a world first, NASA has crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in an attempt to push the rocky traveler off its trajectory. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test – or DART – is meant to test one potential…