When you’re trying to keep a rogue asteroid from hitting Earth, you’d better get it right the first time. With this in mind, the European Space Agency (ESA) is looking for new ideas to help develop a US-European asteroid deflection mission. With a target date of October, 2022, the purpose of the mission is to send a pair of spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid where one will impact it while the other observes the effect... Continue Reading US, ESA to test asteroid deflection
Section: Science and Education
Tags: Asteroid, ESA, Johns Hopkins University, Space, Spacecraft
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