WATCH LIVE: NASA’s DART spacecraft expected to collide with asteroid
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The DART spacecraft is programmed to hurtle into the asteroid at a speed of more than six kilometres per second.
NASA’s deliberate collision with an asteroid is about to happen, and if all goes according to plan, the impact will redirect the non-threatening space rock and alter its flight path.
The world’s first mission in planetary defence will see the DART spacecraft, short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, deflect an asteroid on Monday night at 6 p.m. ET.
The DART lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket last November in a US$330-million project.
DART is essentially a test of the centre’s ability to defend our planet against future asteroids and other Earth-bound debris. It will deliberately slam head-on at 24,139 kilometres per hour into Dimorphos, an asteroid that measures 160 metres across.
NASA will host a livestream of the event, beginning this evening. The impact is expected to happen at 7:14 p.m. ET. A live briefing from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory will take place at the beginning of the livestream.
Global News will also have the livestream available, both on-site (in this article, top) and on YouTube.
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