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- NASA has announced that SpaceX will fly its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) planetary-defence mission.
- DART planetary-defence mission will be will launched by the Falcon 9 rocket from California in June 2021.
- The spacecraft will slam into “Didymoon,” the 540-foot-wide (165 meters) satellite of the near-Earth asteroid Didymos which is located at about 4 million miles from Earth in October 2022.
- After this mission, in 2023, European mission called “Hera” would launch toward the Didymos system and get there in 2026.
- Recently, Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe smashed a copper cannonball into the space rock Ryugu, to unearth pristine subsurface material for study.
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