NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Asteroid Redirect Test

NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Asteroid Redirect Test Mission April 11, 2019: NASA has selected SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the first-ever mission to demonstrate the capability to deflect an asteroid by colliding a spacecraft with it at high speed – a technique known as a kinetic impactor. #NASA #Trending #News https://go.nasa.gov/2P7myOv

NASA has selected SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the first-ever mission to demonstrate the capability to deflect an asteroid by colliding a spacecraft with it at high speed – a technique known as a kin...

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