![]() DGP Gaurav Yadav hails Punjab Police’s valour and sacrifice on Commemoration Day.17 kms in 15 minutes on the dot: A journey on Day 1 of the Namo Bharat RapidX.Aditya Prabhu suicide case: 2 professors of PES University among 3 named in chargesheet.Haryana CM Khattar visits communal violence-hit Nuh village, offers prayers at Nalheshwar temple.International banker Ashok Vaswani to head Kotak Mahindra Bank.Is it ever a good idea to remain friends with an ex? Vivek Oberoi says exes attended his wedding.NASA’s Psyche spacecraft should have launched this year to a metal-rich asteroid between Mars and Jupiter, but the team couldn’t test the flight software in time. One asteroid mission is grounded while an independent review board weighs its future. In 2026, NASA will launch a census-taking telescope to identify hard-to-find asteroids that could pose risks. Another spacecraft, Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, is loaded into NASA’s new moon rocket awaiting liftoff it will use a solar sail to fly past a space rock that’s less than 60 feet (18 meters) next year. NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, meanwhile, is headed to asteroids near Jupiter, after launching last year. ![]() ![]() China hopes to follow suit with a mission launching in 2025. Japan was the first to retrieve asteroid samples, accomplishing the feat twice. NASA has close to a pound (450 grams) of rubble collected from asteroid Bennu headed to Earth. Planet Earth is on an asteroid-chasing roll. We want to do it now rather than when there’s an actual need,” she said. Even if Dart misses, the experiment still will provide valuable insight, said NASA program executive Andrea Riley. “So if you were going to do this for planetary defense, you would do it five, 10, 15, 20 years in advance in order for this technique to work,” she said. “Sometimes we describe it as running a golf cart into a Great Pyramid,” said Chabot.Īlthough the intended nudge should change the moonlet’s position only slightly, that will add up to a major shift over time, according to Chabot. The size of a small vending machine at 1,260 pounds (570 kilograms), the spacecraft will slam into roughly 11 billion pounds (5 billion kilograms) of asteroid. The spacecraft’s navigation is designed to distinguish between the two asteroids and, in the final 50 minutes, target the smaller one. Managers are confident Dart won’t smash into the larger Didymos by mistake. Believed to be essentially a rubble pile, Dimorphos will emerge as a point of light an hour before impact, looming larger and larger in the camera images beamed back to Earth. It has a single instrument: a camera used for navigating, targeting and chronicling the final action. Johns Hopkins took a minimalist approach in developing Dart - short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test - given that it’s essentially a battering ram and faces sure destruction. NASA insists there’s a zero chance either asteroid will threaten Earth - now or in the future.
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