Last night, what might prove to be a very important rocket was launched. The DART mission went up from the Vanderbilt Space Force Base in California on a SpaceX mission.
The test impactor will be flown into a small asteroid named Didymos, which presents no threat and will prove a good proof of concept for the idea of simply hitting an asteroid with a heavy object to adjust its orbit.
The Chelyabinsk air burst in 2013 showed how critical this is. I mean, the crows don't seem to mind being crows, but they might rather be dinosaurs...
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