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NASA’s DART spacecraft successfully hits asteroid Dimorphos
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Mission Operations Center at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. watch and cheer as the DART spacecraft is in its final moments before impact. NASA’s DART spacecraft…

NASA launches the DART mission towards its date with destiny
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NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) has launched. Blasting off at 1:21am EST from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, the mission is now on…

NASA’s Lucy mission to the Trojan asteroids is on its way
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Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA’s Lucy mission took off in a flawless launch on Saturday 16 October, blasting off at 05:34 EDT from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space…

Finding & Tracking Asteroids on ADLIVE 2021
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We share the solar system with a vast population of asteroids. Starlike and mysterious, these space rocks are a fascinating collection of worldlets that date to the origin of the…

The FastKD Project: How To Deflect an Asteroid – And Do It Fast!
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Credit: Airbus The problem is a simple one: what happens when we spot an incoming asteroid that needs deflecting but – instead of the years normally needed to build a…

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