Η SpaceX and NASA will crash a satellite into an asteroid tomorrow morning at 08:21 AM to see if they can affect its path.
Since 2017, NASA is in the process of testing to see if the crash of a satellite on an asteroid can change its course, and for this purpose in 2019 sought the help of SpaceX.
Today, the company SpaceX has announced that it has completed a static fire test and aims to launch the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) tomorrow, November 23rd.
At 8:21 a.m. "Greece will deliberately crash the DART spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it is an effective way to change course if an asteroid threatening Earth is discovered in the future," SpaceX said. in a tweet.
The static fire test is one of several steps in preparing a rocket and checks the starting performance of the engine by measuring things like pressure and the temperature. Upon completion of this stage, SpaceX and NASA seem to be moving into the next phase.
DART targets a binary asteroid, with two bodies called Gemini. Gemini B is 160 meters and orbits the larger Gemini A, which has a size of 780 meters.
NASA has already identified at least 23 objects that could potentially collide with us in the next 100 years. Finding a defensive strategy is the key to it protection of humanity, if o Armageddon visit us the future.
