Space Rocks!
Behind the Spacecraft: NASA’s DART, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test
NASA is crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid… on purpose! Our DART mission is a first-of-its-kind Planetary Defense test to change the motion of an asteroid in space so that […]
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Behind the Spacecraft: NASA’s DART, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test
Behind the Spacecraft: Michelle Chen
NASA’s DART mission will purposely crash a spacecraft into an asteroid to change its orbital period. But in order to hit the mark, this test mission needs to locate its […]
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Behind the Spacecraft: Michelle Chen
Behind the Spacecraft: Kelly Fast
NASA planetary defender Dr. Kelly Fast has a hard and fast rule: “Find asteroids before they find us.” Working in NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office, Kelly is helping send a […]
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Behind the Spacecraft: Kelly Fast
Behind the Spacecraft: Andy Rivkin
NASA’s DART mission is crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to try to change its motion in space. But how will we know if this test worked? That’s where Johns […]
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Behind the Spacecraft: Andy Rivkin
Behind the Spacecraft: Justyna Surowiec
NASA searches the skies every night to find, track and catalogue near-Earth objects. But what would they do if there were a threat? NASA is launching its first planetary defense […]
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Behind the Spacecraft: Justyna Surowiec
Behind the Spacecraft: Elena Adams
Before NASA’s DART mission slams into an asteroid — in the name of science — it has to be designed, built, launched, and flown. Johns Hopkins APL systems engineer Elena […]
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Behind the Spacecraft: Elena Adams
OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return
Watch a spacecraft deliver an asteroid sample to Earth! Our OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith Explorer) spacecraft is approaching Earth, and on Sept. 24, 2023, it released […]
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