Tag: asteroids
Asteroids: NASA prepares to recover samples from Bennu
Eric Bottlaender Space specialist July 24, 2023 at 4:30 p.m. 0 Dress rehearsal for the teams, with a double of the capsule which will land on September 24. ©NASA In…
The United Arab Emirates unveils its future mission to explore asteroids (and even land there)
Eric Bottlaender Space specialist May 30, 2023 at 1:20 p.m. 2 The MBR Explorer probe will be equipped with solar panels approximately 7 meters in diameter © MBRSC For 18…
With NEOMIR, ESA wants to protect us from asteroids invisible from Earth
Eric Bottlaender Space specialist February 21, 2023 at 2 p.m. 0 The NEOMIR concept in action on this artist view © ESA / P. Carril The potentially most worrying asteroids…
NASA wants to ram asteroids out of orbit: This is how you see the Armageddon mission (update)
TECHNOLOGY September 27, 2022 at 9:35 am Bruce Willis saved Earth from colliding with an asteroid in Armageddon. NASA now wants to do this without the help of the Hollywood…
NASA probe crashes into asteroids
EFor the first time, a probe from the US space agency Nasa intentionally crashed into an asteroid during a defense test in space. The unmanned probe of the “Dart” mission…
Partial success in Nasa mission – Nasa probe hits asteroids as planned – News
A probe from the US space agency Nasa has intentionally crashed into an asteroid in an attempt to change its trajectory. The unmanned probe of the “Dart” mission (Double Asteroid…
Bruce Willis was yesterday – Small space probe to deflect asteroids – Knowledge
contents A Kamikaze spacecraft will crash into an asteroid on Tuesday night. A first test for emergencies. It will be a historic moment, the astronomers from Nasa, Esa and other…
NASA goes on the hunt for asteroids
Like a bit of a disaster movie. NASA will launch a spacecraft on September 26 as part of the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission. The objective of this ship…
The DART space probe can now see the pair of asteroids it will collide with
Eric Bottlaender Space specialist September 09, 2022 at 12:30 p.m. 9 Of course, in August it was still only a dot, impossible to distinguish Didymos from its small moon Dimorphos.…
Astronomers discover Jupiter asteroids with their own moons
They have planets, the earth has one and even smaller celestial bodies cast a spell on them: we’re talking about moons. However, smaller chunks only rarely move around asteroids. Astronomers…
Water on Earth could have been brought by asteroids according to a Japanese study.
Was Earth’s water brought by asteroids? This is the hypothesis put forward by a Japanese study published by the journal Nature Astronomy. The analysis of the composition of samples of…
DART: the space mission to protect the Earth from dangerous asteroids
A NASA probe embarks on a historic quest: to alter the trajectory of an asteroid. What do we know about DART, NASA’s asteroid deflection mission? NASA launched a space probe…