NASA’s DART Spacecraft Hits Asteroid in Planetary Defense System Test

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NASA’s DART spacecraft hurtled through the solar system at hypersonic speed on Monday and slammed into a distant asteroid, in a test of the world’s first planetary defense system designed to prevent a potential collision of a meteorite with the Earth.

The end of this spaceflight, humanity’s first attempt to alter the motion of an asteroid or any celestial body, was broadcast by NASA from the mission operations center outside Washington, 10 months after launch. of DART.

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