NASA has signed a USD 61 million contract with SpaceX company. These funds will be used to launch the DART spacecraft, which will destroy asteroids that pose potentially threat to the Earth, Extremetech reports.
“The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) has been in development for several years, and now it’s got a real launch date with the awarding of a contract to SpaceX. DART will head into space to blast an asteroid in June 2021 aboard a Falcon 9 rocket,” the report says.
DART is currently under development at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
As The Journalist reported, India had tested anti-satellite weapon.
Подписывайтесь на telegram-канал journalist.today
