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[ad_1] ESA's Hera spacecraft will observe the aftermath of the collission of the DART mission spacecraft with the asteroid Dimorphos. NASA's $240 million DART Mission spacecraft is all set to collide with its target asteroid Dimorphos on September 26. The mission was launched in November last year with the aim to smash a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos and to deflect it away from its path. Although this asteroid is non-threatening for Earth, the NASA asteroid mission aims to carry out an experiment to gain greater knowledge as to what will happen if a craft is crashed against a space rock. In yet another amazing revelation, the European Space Agency (ESA) has a follow-up mission to NASA's DART Mission in the works. ...

[ad_1] NASA's DART Mission spacecraft will collide with an asteroid on September 26, 2022. Here is how you can watch it live. NASA with its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission is all set to soon crash a spacecraft into an asteroid on September 26, 2022 to test planetary defence techniques. It can be known that the asteroid with which the spacecraft is going to collide is non-hazardous. If you want to watch the historic collision then you can know that NASA will be broadcasting it live. Informing about the same NASA tweeted, "Our #DARTMission will intentionally crash into an asteroid—which poses no threat to Earth—on Monday, Sept. 26. It's a test of planetary defense should we ever need it. And we're broadcasting i...

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Awesome! After DART spacecraft crashes into asteroid, ESA’s Hera to check effect of impact

Historic! NASA DART Mission to crash into an asteroid; You can watch it live