NASA’s DART Asteroid Mission Could Severely Deform Target Asteroid, New Study Reveals

NASA’s DART Asteroid Mission Could Severely Deform Target Asteroid, New Study Reveals

ByNews Polite

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is the world’s first full-scale planetary defence test against potential asteroid impacts on Earth. Researchers now show that instead of leaving behind a relatively small crater, the impact of the DART spacecraft on its target could leave the asteroid near unrecognisable. A giant…

NASA Puts Pysche Mission on Hold, Blames Late Delivery of Navigation Software

NASA Puts Pysche Mission on Hold, Blames Late Delivery of Navigation Software

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NASA put an asteroid mission on hold on Friday, blaming the late delivery of its own navigation software. The Psyche mission to a strange metal asteroid of the same name was supposed to launch this September or October. But the agency’s Jet Propulsion Lab was several months late delivering its…