Double Asteroid Redirection Test
NASA’s DART spacecraft crashes into distant asteroid in ‘planetary defense’ test
The craft was rammed into an asteroid several million kilometers away from Earth in order to determine how the orbits of extra-terrestrial bodies could be altered or slowed through deliberate intervention
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