NASA today (Wednesday) launched a special spacecraft from California, designed to collide with an asteroid in order to divert it from its orbit.
NASA has launched from California a special spacecraft designed to collide with an asteroid to deflect it. This is an experiment by the space agency designed to test a defense system to deal with the threat of asteroids threatening to hit Earth. Country@itamargalit pic.twitter.com/TknIicJ5wz
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The spacecraft’s journey will take about a year and it is supposed to collide with an asteroid about 160 meters in diameter and repel it from its orbit. To reassure the public, NASA made it clear that no asteroid is currently making its way to Earth.
NASA will soon embark on an ambitious venture, which will make the “Armageddon” plot a reality and ignite my imagination: sending a spacecraft aimed at diverting an asteroid from its orbit
NASA makes it clear that this is an exercise, and no asteroid is making its way to us. But here’s a great opportunity for humanity to explore ways to protect the planet, and for me to prepare an article for “Today’s World” pic.twitter.com/oWCsMFR9Y5– Itamar Margalit | Itimar Margalit (@itamargalit) November 18, 2021
Itai Nevo, editor-in-chief and space reporter at the Davidson Institute, the educational arm of the Weizmann Institute of Science, told Kalman Liebskind and Assaf Lieberman on the Kalman-Lieberman program here on NASA’s experiment that “the spacecraft will collide in about a year with a small asteroid . His attack on the country could destroy a city. “
Listen to the full interview with Itai Nevo here on Net B.
The US space agency NASA last week launched four astronauts to the International Space Station in a SpaceX spacecraft. This is the 600th man to launch into space, 60 years since Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was there.
The US space agency NASA tonight launched four astronauts to the International Space Station in a SpaceX spacecraft. The four astronauts are expected to arrive at the station in less than 24 hours.
(Photo: Reuters) pic.twitter.com/FeNrVcRh1E– News here (@kann_news) November 11, 2021