AUGUST 30, 2018 Via John Hopkins Applied Physics Category APL-Led Asteroid-Deflection Mission Passes Key Development Milestone Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory The first-ever mission to demonstrate an asteroid deflection technique for planetary defense has moved into the final design and assembly phase, following NASA’s approval on Aug. 16. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), being designed, built and […]

Via Rt.com Hollywood movies have long dramatised the threat of Earth being wiped out in by an asteroid discovered at the 11th hour, only for disaster to be averted by all-American heroes such as Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck or a gristly Robert Duvall. As NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office uses the asteroid “2012 TC4” to test its ability to respond […]