The demise of a spacecraft is usually something rather poignant. But two weeks ago, NASA celebrated one’s destruction. On September 26, NASA executed the final stage of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), in which a spacecraft intentionally crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos to investigate whether or not such an impact could deflect an Earth-bound […]
Smashing success: NASA’s DART spacecraft bumped an asteroid off its orbit by Stefanie Waldek originally published on TechCrunch...