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NASA’s DART mission successfully hits asteroid in planetary defence test
New York: After 10 months of flying in space, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) — the world’s first planetary defence technology demonstration — successfully impacted its asteroid target, the agency’s first…
- Science
NASA’s DART asteroid defence mission lifts off
Washington: NASA on Wednesday launched its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft, intended to deliberately crash into an asteroid.The DART mission lifted off at 1.21 a.m. EST (11.51 a.m. India time), aboard a…
- World
NASA postpones launch of planetary defence mission
Washington: NASA will delay the launch of a mission which seeks to test and validate a method to protect Earth in case of an asteroid impact threat. The launch of the mission, called…