DART: NASA's mission to deflect an asteroid
The space agency seeks to impact Didymos
Like just taken from a movie script in which you have to stop a meteor that will reach the earth. NASA science and technology is doing tests to deflect the impact of an asteriode .
DART or in its translation Double Asteroid Redirection Test , which in Spanish translates to double asteroid redirection test , will be the first ship to land against celestial objects to try to divert its path. Specifically, it will do so against Didymos, a binary system of asterioids. The network is 780 meters wide and has a satellite that orbits around it. It is in detail 11 million kilometers from the earth.
This ship will be launched from the Falcon 9 rocket belonging to Space X . The takeoff was made from California. The space agency intends to investigate the kinetic impact in the face of a possible asteroid threat. If the mission turns out as the agency envisions, the spacecraft will travel for almost 1 year, traveling 11 million kilometers . The expedition could reach its goal of hitting the asteroid Dimorphos. The crash is predicted to speed 6.6 kilometers per second.
For this, a camera called DRACO has been devised, which has independent navigation software . This tool can facilitate the impact of the mission . "The collision will change the speed of the small moon in its orbit around the main body by a fraction of one percent, which will serve to change its orbital period by several minutes, enough to be observed and measured with telescopes on Earth. â€, They explain from NASA.
The area in which the impact will occur, will approach the countries: Germany, Czech Republic and Austria. And it will be monitored by telescopes, planetary radars that will monitor the maneuvers in detail. In addition to that each movement will be recorded audiovisual.
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