NASA successfully launches planetary defence test

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United States space agency NASA has successfully launched a spacecraft which is designed to crash into an asteroid to succeed.

The aim is to test new defence technology designed to deflect speeding rocks which could potentially collide with Earth in the future.

This is NASA’s first attempt using the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) which launched yesterday off a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

DART is targeting an asteroid called Dimorphos, which is 160 metres across and twinned with larger asteroid Didymos.

In September of next year, DART will crash into Dimorphos to test how much the asteroids would be impacted.

The chosen asteroids do not pose any risk to Earth.
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NASA launches? No. SpaceX launches a planetary mission for NASA.

KEB
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What amazes me is that people still actually believe NASA’s BS.
To funny

thesepeoplearecriminals
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I thought SpaceX launched the rocket. I watched the livestream yesterday.

mrnicktoyou
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Woohoo, it flies. Phew. Zack Snyder’s asteroid cut.

spikeprotein
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World (especially US taxpayers)- Hey what are you guys up to? See you're launchin some stuff.
NASA- Oh, that! Yeah, we uh, we were just gettin the planet protected there. So we uh thought maybe we'd shoot up our planetary protector magnum XL (ribbed for her pleasure) to make sure nobody gets hit by an asteroid, abducted by aliens, or catches space covid.
That'll be 4.978 trillion please.

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Breaking News: an asteroid known as Didymos is on a cataclysmic collision course with Earth. Scientists have ascertained that it is due to an abnormal shortening of the orbit of it's satellite Dimorphos. Scientists are now investigating into what caused the abnormal shortening of the orbit and what can be done about preventing the collision of Didymos and it's satellite into our planet. More news at 10.

maifantasia
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What's the slowest possible closing speed of a space object? 1500 mph?

roddymillard
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the asteroid did not explode, russia did.

sbfarmer
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To defend against a rock? I thought this was about our response to china’s new weapons that can bypass our defenses?

alexandermartinez
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A month ago they said they were hitting didymos. Lies

watchwomanofthedragon
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Wormwood will hit... nothing can stop it...

peterli
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Hopefully it will not hit us after they have moved it. WOW

toddgrady
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Why now they are up to somthing a lot of money to break rocks

macka
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They wouldnt tell us if one was coming anyway...!!??

alanwalker
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Watch out! According to this concept a fly hitting your windscreen will push your car off the road. What kind off horsesh*t pablum is this? F=MA. Force = mass x acceleration.

Wombbatts
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It's funny....

They have managed to deflect the fanboys from going to the moon to looking at this and bamboozle them with feats at low earth orbit...


Well played NASA

ivanhoeescobar
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Looking for more ways to siphon money into projects for solutions to a problem that doesn't exist and never has existed in recorded history....

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Another science fiction story for those interested and dumb enough to believe it...

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