The American space agency NASA had tested the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission in the year 2022. Then a spacecraft was hit by an asteroid named Dimorphos. Initial results were encouraging and NASA confirmed that the collision caused a change in the asteroid’s path. NASA had hoped that in the future, when an asteroid…
The American space agency NASA had tested the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission in the year 2022. Then a spacecraft was hit by an asteroid named Dimorphos. Initial results were encouraging and NASA confirmed that the collision caused a change in the asteroid’s path. NASA had hoped that in the future, when an asteroid…
Japan Asteroid Mission: Japan’s space agency ‘JAXA’ may be behind other countries in sending missions to the Moon, but asteroids are its ‘target’. ‘JAXA’ is among the few agencies in the world which sent samples taken from asteroid ‘Ryugu’ to Earth in 2020. Now it is going to test such a technology, the purpose of…