TONIGHT: Watch NASA Slam A Spaceship Into an Asteroid to Test Planetary Defense
At 7:14 PM U.S. Eastern Time tonight, a small American spacecraft will smash itself to pieces against the asteroid…
Tag: Asteroids
2022 Space Missions: A New Space Station, Moon Mining, A Mars Rover and Webb’s Debut
Exponential growth in the public and private space sectors are increasing the number of launches yearly, and 2022 promises…
To Nudge an Asteroid NASA to Rely Not on a Missile But a DART
PICTURED: Illustration of the DART spacecraft flying into the asteroid Dimorphos. PC: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben. Can slamming an…
TransAstra Enters Phase III for Prototyping Revolutionary Asteroid Mining Technologies
Plans continue going well for the Trans Astronautica Corporation, who have patent-pending technology for asteroid mining on a massive…