{"id":5823,"date":"2019-09-04T11:01:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T11:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=5823"},"modified":"2019-09-04T11:01:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T11:01:57","slug":"esa-and-nasa-partners-for-asteroid-deflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/esa-and-nasa-partners-for-asteroid-deflection\/","title":{"rendered":"ESA and NASA partners for asteroid deflection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The European space agency (ESA) has announced its plan to partner with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to stop asteroids hitting Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NASA will provide the collider, the Double Asteroid Impact\nTest (DART). It should launch in summer 2021 and will smack into the smaller of\nthe two Didymos asteroids at about 14,764MPH. An Italian cubesat, LICIACube,\nwill study the moment of impact. After that, the ESA will launch a Hera probe\nin October 2024 to study the target asteroid, including the impact crater, mass\nand a radar probe (the first ever for an asteroid). Hera will take roughly two\nyears to arrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scientists chose the asteroid pair precisely because it was\neasy to test. The smaller rock orbits slowly enough that it should be realistic\nto change its orbit in a noticeable way. That wouldn’t be an option with an\nasteroid flying solo in a solar orbit, the ESA said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Collision Mission:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The asteroid\nresearchers aim for the smaller body of the double Didymos asteroids between\nEarth and Mars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this purpose,\nNASA is building the Double Asteroid Impact Test, or Dart spacecraft, which has\nbeen scheduled to launch in 2021. DART will reach its target at 6.6 km\/s in\nSeptember 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

DART will be\naccompanied by an Italian-made miniature CubeSat called LICIACube. This will\ntravel alongside to capture the moment of impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand,\nESA’s HERA will perform a detailed measurement of the asteroid’s size and the\ncrater shape. By this study, the researchers can figure out whether the\ntechnique can be used against a real threat. The mission has been planned to be\nlaunched in October 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The European space agency (ESA) has announced its plan to partner with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to stop asteroids hitting Earth. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 NASA will provide the collider, the Double Asteroid Impact Test (DART). It should launch in summer 2021 and will smack into the smaller of the two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[740,741],"class_list":["post-5823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-european-space-agency","tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5825,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823\/revisions\/5825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}