(Updated) NASA successfully crashes spacecraft into Asteroid Dimorphos

[SBFNews]

 

[SBFNews]

A NASA Spacecraft Will Collide With an Asteroid on Monday. Watch Live Here​

SPACE
26 September 2022
By STEVEN TINGAY, THE CONVERSATION

Illustration of the DART spacecraft approaching the Dimorphos and Didymos asteroids. (NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben)
On September 26 at 11.15 pm UTC, NASA's DART mission (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) will be the first to deliberately and measurably change the motion of a significant body in our Solar System.

In other words, it will smash into an asteroid.

The mission will provide the first test of a technique that could be used in the future – to redirect any asteroids we detect on a collision course with Earth.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sc...ith-an-asteroid-on-monday-watch-live-here/amp

 

[glockman]

I hope Bruce Willis is hired as a NASA technical consultant, because he's done this before.

 

[glockman]

DART will impact within an hour from now, it's now 6:20am SG time.

Watch live: NASA's DART first-ever test of planetary defense with Asteroid Dimorphos | DW News
868 watching now Started streaming 18 minutes ago When NASA's DART spacecraft crashes into the asteroid Dimorphos, it will mark the first time humanity has deflected an object in space. It's a test to see how we'd defend Earth against asteroid impacts.

 

[SBFNews]

DART will impact within an hour from now, it's now 6:20am SG time.

Watch live: NASA's DART first-ever test of planetary defense with Asteroid Dimorphos | DW News
868 watching now Started streaming 18 minutes ago When NASA's DART spacecraft crashes into the asteroid Dimorphos, it will mark the first time humanity has deflected an object in space. It's a test to see how we'd defend Earth against asteroid impacts.

Looks successful.

 

[SBFNews]

Spacecraft on target on impact in 24 mins! Going to be bullseye hit!

 

[glockman]

Spacecraft on target on impact in 24 mins! Going to be bullseye hit!

So here we are, trying to test technology that could save the world. To protect humans. And on the other hand, we have Putin and the fucking russkies destroying lives to further their misplaced ambition. The world is forward looking while the russkies are backward and backward looking.

 

[SBFNews]

So here we are, trying to test technology that could save the world. To protect humans. And on the other hand, we have Putin and the fucking russkies destroying lives to further their misplaced ambition. The world is forward looking while the russkies are backward and backward looking.

less than 5 mins to impact!

 

[SBFNews]

Impact!

 

[SBFNews]

Hit right on Target! Congratulations to NASA!

 

[glockman]

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Hit tight on Target! Congratulations to NASA!

Indeed, well done NASA and Bruce Willis! Now that we are able to defect doomsday asteroids from space, let's hope putin doesn't nuke us from within.

 

[syed putra]

So here we are, trying to test technology that could save the world. To protect humans. And on the other hand, we have Putin and the fucking russkies destroying lives to further their misplaced ambition. The world is forward looking while the russkies are backward and backward looking.

Putin waited 8 years before he intervened in ukraine civil war and two years after president zelensky won a landslide promising to end it by giving more autonomy to russian speaking areas. That did not happen. Russian speaking politifisns were detained instead.

Only way to resolve this is to split Ukraine in two, like what US did 8n former Yugoslavia.

 

[Leongsam]

So here we are, trying to test technology that could save the world. To protect humans. And on the other hand, we have Putin and the fucking russkies destroying lives to further their misplaced ambition. The world is forward looking while the russkies are backward and backward looking.

If an asteroid is headed towards earth the resulting destruction is all part of God's plan for mankind and we should not be intervening in this manner.

 

[SBFNews]

Indeed, well done NASA and Bruce Willis! Now that we are able to defect doomsday asteroids from space, let's hope putin doesn't nuke us from within.

That asteroid looks like a piece of Ferrero Rocher

 

[SBFNews]

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/09/26/science/nasa-dart-asteroid-mission

Updated
Sept. 26, 2022, 7:37 p.m. ET4 minutes ago
4 minutes ago

NASA’s DART Mission Crashes Into an Asteroid to Defend the Earth​

The spacecraft plowed into a space rock with the goal of demonstrating how an asteroid threatening Earth could be deflected.

An image recorded by NASA’s DART spacecraft on Monday shortly before it collided with the asteroid Dimorphos.Credit...ASI/NASA, via Associated Press

 

[Froggy]

Finally was the asteroid diverted?

 

[SBFNews]

Finally was the asteroid diverted?

Don't think they have reached that stage of technology yet. Test was to get accurate trajectory and impact of a small spacecraft on the asteroid

 

[Froggy]

Don't think they have reached that stage of technology yet. Test was to get accurate trajectory and impact of a small spacecraft on the asteroid

Oh I see. It’s like you just finished foreplay and the woman ask you if you have a condom.

 

[saynotomsm]

lol, low budget film with clowns clapping hands.

 

[poore]

the spacecraft how heavy only? can create an impact?