NASA successfully slammed its DART spacecraft into an asteroid in a historic, first-of-its-kind test:
HOW WILL THE DART MISSION WORK?
Dart did not miss — NASA put the odds of that happening at less than 10% — and it's the end of the road for Dart. If it had gone screaming past both space rocks, it would have encountered them again in a couple of years for Take 2.Little Dimorphos completes a lap around big Didymos every 11 hours and 55 minutes. The impact by Dart should shave about 10 minutes off that.
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, meanwhile, is headed to asteroids near Jupiter, after launching last year. 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 next year. In the next few years, NASA also plans to launch a census-taking telescope to identify hard-to-find asteroids that could pose risks.
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