planetarydefense
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Asteroid-Mining Startup Plans First Private Mission to Deep Space
AstroForge has announced an ambitious commercial mission to observe a distant asteroid — an important step for the California startup as it strives to become the world’s first deep space mining company.
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A Powerful Recoil Effect Magnified NASA’s Asteroid Deflection Experiment
Scientists continue to pore over the results of NASA’s stunningly successful DART test to deflect a harmless asteroid. As the latest findings suggest, the recoil created by the blast of debris spewing out from Dimorphos after impact was significant, further boosting the spacecraft’s influence on the asteroid.
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This High-Tech Cube Will Visit the Asteroid Smashed by NASA’s DART Spacecraft
In the aftermath of the astounding plan to move a harmless asteroid with NASA’s DART mission, further science is needed to determine exactly what kind of impact humanity had on the distant Dimorphos. ESA’s Hera mission aims to do just that with its launch in two years, and it will be bringing along a scrappy…
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How DART Scientists Know the Experiment to Shove an Asteroid Actually Worked
Earlier this week, NASA announced that its DART spacecraft successfully moved an asteroid by a few dozen feet. This raises a valid question: How the heck did scientists figure this out, given that Dimorphos is nearly 7 million miles away? Needless to say, this task required some clever astronomy and a veritable village of astronomers.