Home > NASA to deflect asteroid in test of 'planetary defence'

News
NASA to deflect asteroid in test of 'planetary defence'

Description

In the 1998 Hollywood blockbuster "Armageddon," Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck race to save the Earth from being pulverized by an asteroid. While the Earth faces no such immediate danger, NASA plans to crash a spacecraft traveling at a speed of 15,000 miles per hour (24,000 kph) into an asteroid next year in a test of "planetary defence."

Added on the 05/11/2021 12:56:16 - Copyright : France 24 EN

To customise your video :

Generic export code

More videos on the subject

NASA says spaceship successfully deflected asteroid in test to save Earth

NASA says it has succeeded in deflecting an asteroid in a historic test of humanity's ability to stop an incoming cosmic object from devastating life on Earth. The fridge-sized Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impactor deliberately smashed into the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, pushing it into a smaller, faster orbit around its big brother Didymos, says NASA chief Bill Nelson in a press conference from Washington. SOUNDBITE

11/10/2022 - AFPTV - First images
NASA launches mission to metal-rich asteroid Psyche

A NASA spacecraft blasts off from the Kennedy Space Center bound for Psyche, a metal-rich asteroid that could be the remnants of a small planet, or perhaps a new type of celestial body unknown to science. Trailing a blue glow from its next-generation electric propulsion system and flanked by two large solar arrays, the van-sized probe should arrive at its destination in the Asteroid Belt, between Mars and Jupiter, in July 2029. IMAGES

13/10/2023 - AFPTV - First images
Bennu asteroid sample contains water and carbon: NASA

A sample of rock and dust retrieved from the asteroid Bennu contains water and carbon molecules, both building blocks for life as we know it, NASA chief Bill Nelson says. SOUNDBITE

11/10/2023 - AFPTV - First images
NASA mission to smash spacecraft into asteroid blasts off

A NASA mission to deliberately smash a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if its course can be altered blasts off from California. The SpaceX rocket carrying the experiment lifted off at 10:21 pm Pacific Time (0621 GMT Wednesday) from Vandenberg Space Force Base, NASA TV's livestream showed. IMAGES

24/11/2021 - AFPTV - First images
Russia test fires hypersonic missile from submarine

Images of a hypersonic anti-ship cruise missile as Russia announces that it has successfully tested the launch of the missile from a submarine. Moscow has in recent years touted the development of futuristic weapons that it hopes will give it the edge in any arms race with the United States at a time of growing tensions with the West. IMAGES

04/10/2021 - AFPTV - First images
NASA begins a mission in Asturias to observe Jupiter asteroids

Gijon (Asturias), Sep 27 (EFE) .- (camera: Eloy Alonso) NASA started an observation mission Monday in Asturias of the asteroids of planet Jupiter from different parts of Spain to obtain information on the origin of organic matter in the solar system.

28/09/2021 - EFE Inglés