Nasa’s £300m Dart spacecraft will smash into an asteroid later tonight in the first ever test of its kind
The impact is due to take place at 23.14 GMT today. Telescopes will be watching the aftermath of the collision to study the effectiveness.
The test being conducted in several hours will see a craft crash almost head on into the Dimorphos asteroid at over 20,000 km/h. The $300m craft, roughly the size of a vending machine, will crash head-on into the asteroid and will be obliterated on impact.The mission launched from Vandenberg space force base in November last year.
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