The DART spacecraft will serve as a test for a future doomsday scenario where a large asteroid ends up on a collision course with the Earth.
NASA on Tuesday night successfully launched its experimental asteroid deflecting spacecraft which is set to smash into an asteroid at 15,000 miles per hour and serve as a test run for countering any future doomsday scenario where a large space rock could end up on a collision course with the Earth.... [+]The Double Asteroid Redirection Test , developed by NASA and the European Space Agency launched from the Vandenberg Space Force Base at around 10.
In 2022, the DART spacecraft is expected to smash into the asteroid Dimorphos and its moonlet Didymos—neither of which pose no threat to Earth at the moment—with the hope of deflecting their course.
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