Armageddon practice: An anti-asteroid vehicle launched into space

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NASA today (Wednesday) launched a special spacecraft from California, designed to collide with an asteroid in order to divert it from its orbit.

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.

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.

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