NASA and the European Space Agency are partnering to test if a satellite is capable of knocking an asteroid out of a collision course with earth. The mission will use two spacecraft, one to be launched by NASA in 2021, and another by the European Space Agency. Traveling at six kilometres per second, the NASA spacecraft DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test), will collide with the asteroid, testing whether its trajectory can be altered, and whether the asteroid will shatter into smaller pieces that would still pose a threat to earth. “When we have a high-speed impact on an asteroid, you … Continue reading NASA to smash satellite into asteroid to test Earth defense technology