NASA Hits Big with Asteroid Defense
Posted on September 28th, 2022 by Mary Lord
Talk about “high impact” engineering! On September 26, NASA intentionally crashed a small spacecraft into an asteroid, providing the world’s first full-scale demonstration of planetary defense missions to deflect potential near-Earth hazards.
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Tags: CubeSat, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, kinetic impact, NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test, planetary defense, space exploration, spacecraft
