Planetary Defense Test
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NASA to Provide Update on DART, World’s First Planetary Defense Test
NASA will host a media briefing at 2 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Oct. 11, to discuss the agency’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission and its intentional collision with its target asteroid, Dimorphos. The briefing will air on NASA TV, the NASA app, and the agency’s website. Participants include: NASA Administrator Bill NelsonItalian Space Agency President Giorgio SaccocciaDART update panel:Lori Glaze, director…
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NASA Invites Media to Witness World’s First Planetary Defense Test
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the world’s first mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards, will impact its target asteroid—which poses no threat to Earth—at 7:14 p.m. EDT on Monday, Sept. 26. Among other activities, NASA will host a televised briefing beginning at 6 p.m. on Sept. 26 from the Johns Hopkins Applied…
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