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Japan space agency rocket carrying 8 satellites fails

The Japanese space agency says a rocket carrying eight satellites failed just after liftoff and had to be aborted by a self-destruction command, in the country’s first failed rocket launch in nearly 20 years

The Independent UK · Oct 12, 2022

NASA Kicked Asteroid Off Course in Test to Save Earth

NASA on Tuesday celebrated exceeding expectations during a mission to deflect a distant asteroid, in a sci-fi like test of humanity's ability to stop an incoming cosmic object from devastating life on Earth. The fridge-sized Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impactor deliberately smashed into the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos on September…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Oct 12, 2022

SpaceX spacecraft fragments to be collected from NSW Snowy Mountains farms to be stored, sent overseas

The Australian Space Agency has begun to collect pieces of spacecraft fragments from the NSW Snowy Mountains, some of which will be sent to the US.

ABC News · Oct 12, 2022

NASA asteroid crash a smashing success

The mission sets a precedent as to how humanity might deflect a deadly Earth-bound asteroid in the future

Salon · Oct 11, 2022

NASA confirms DART asteroid defense mission was a success in planetary first

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully moved an asteroid, space agency officials confirmed on Tuesday, October 11.

Inverse · Oct 11, 2022

NASA says DART spacecraft successfully alters asteroid’s path

Taking a page out of science fiction and Hollywood scripts, US space agency aims to prevent collision with Earth.

Al Jazeera · Oct 11, 2022

Youngster from Kochi captures classic images of Andromeda using basic equipment

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The Hindu · Oct 11, 2022

Nasa says its Dart spacecraft changed asteroid's path in 'watershed moment for humanity'

Nasa's DART spacecraft achieved its primary goal in changing the direction of an asteroid through sheer kinetic force, as part of a $330 million mission in September

Daily Mirror · Oct 11, 2022

NASA strike test successfully altered asteroid's trajectory

A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test.

France 24 · Oct 11, 2022

‘Watershed moment for humanity’: Nasa hails success of asteroid mission that was test to save planet

Nasa says its spacecraft managed to nudge the asteroid out of its natural orbit

Evening Standard · Oct 11, 2022