The world's first doomsday deflection test 😯was a success. Watch the footage here.👇 DARTMIssion
The asteroids merely served as a kinetic impact test to see if scientists could navigate a spacecraft to intentionally deflect an asteroid and prevent it from colliding with Earth.“Now we know we can aim a spacecraft with the precision needed to impact even a small body in space. Just a small change in its speed is all we need,” said NASA’s Thomas Zurbuchen.Asteroids Dimorphos and Didymos are approximately 11 million kilometres from earth.
The mission’s Propulsion Module flight model being delivered to Avio, southeast of Rome, where propellant tanks, thrusters and associated pipes and valves will be integrated with it. Photo: ESA. It will also carry two nano-satellite CubeSats, called Milani and Juventas. The trajectory options for the CubeSatsBack in March 2022, SpaceX launched three South African nanosatellites onboard a Falcon 9 rocket as part of the Maritime Domain Awareness Satellite constellation .
The MDASat-1 consisted of cube satellites developed entirely in Africa, to detect, identify and monitor vessels in near real-time. Read more below:
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