The first planetary defense mission will take to the skies early Wednesday, when NASA launches a probe designed to deflect a tiny moon in a test of technology to protect Earth from collisions with asteroids and comets
The first planetary defense mission takes to the skies early Wednesday, when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration launches a space probe designed to deflect a distant asteroid in a test of technology that might one day save the world.
The $324 million Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, mission—a practice run for future efforts to protect Earth from collisions with asteroids and comets—is scheduled to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 1:21 a.m. EST from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Next fall, after a journey of more than six million miles, the probe will crash at 15,000 miles an hour into Dimorphos, a tiny moonlet that orbits a larger asteroid called Didymos.
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