Hunting for Asteroids.
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The Dart ship has achieved its wings, of course they are deployable solar panels that will remain rolled up in two golden cylinders on the sides of the spacecraft, although when the ship is in space they will unfold as if they were wings or sails.
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In November of this year, the spacecraft will be launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Vanderberg space force base in California, bound for the binary asteroid Didymos, composed of a main object about 780 meters wide and a smaller one. that the orbit called by nasa Dimorphos.
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Although popularly it is also known as Didy Luna, this moon is about 160 meters in diameter and is the objective of the spacecraft that will impact against already 23 thousand kilometers per hour, that will happen in the fall of 2022 and about 11 million kilometers away from the earth, enough so that the asteroid system is visible to ground-based telescopes and in this way that scientists can calculate the exact change in the orbital period, that is, how much the Didy moon has moved after the impact.
Asteroid Impact Mission
A few years later in October 2024, the ERA mission of the European space agent that will travel to the asteroid will be launched, we live where it will arrive in December 2026, its objective will be to analyze the effects of the impact in more detail, thanks to these missions we will be able to have the first real data to be able to plan planetary defense plans against the risk of an asteroid impact with the earth.
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