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Bookmark or Share- Hera mission launches to explore asteroid system hit by NASA DART ...The European Space Agency’s Hera mission lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 10:52 a.m. ET on Monday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch marks the first Falcon 9 ...
- NASA’s DART Mission Hits Asteroid in First-Ever Planetary Defense TestAfter 10 months flying in space, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – the world’s first planetary defense technology demonstration – successfully impacted its asteroid target on Monday, the agency’s first attempt to move an asteroid in space.
- Planetary defense: Protecting Earth from space-based threatsPlanetary defense is the effort to monitor and protect Earth from asteroids, comets and other objects in space. Earth 's gravity attracts more than a hundred tons...
- Planetary Defense at NASA - NASA SciencePlanetary Defense at NASA. In 2016, NASA established the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) to manage the agency's ongoing mission of finding, tracking, and better understanding asteroids and comets that could pose an impact hazard to Earth.
- NASA’s First Planetary Defense Mission Target Gets a New NameIn 2022, that moon will be the target of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the first full-scale demonstration of an asteroid deflection technology for planetary defense. The DART spacecraft will execute a kinetic impact, deliberately crashing into the asteroid to change its motion in space.
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