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2021

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which space agency is preparing to launch the DART mission to prevent the collision of Earth with an asteroid?
A
NASA
B
JAXA
C
CNSA
D
ISRO
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -NASA Confirms DART Mission Impact Changed Asteroid’s Motion in Space. This imagery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope from Oct. 8, 2022, shows the debris blasted from the surface of Dimorphos 285 hours after the asteroid was intentionally impacted by NASA’s DART spacecraft on Sept. 26.

Detailed explanation-2: -In a successful attempt to alter the orbit of an asteroid for the first time in history, NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos on Sept. 26, 2022. The mission, known as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, took place at an asteroid that posed no threat to our planet.

Detailed explanation-3: -Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) 26, 2022, DART impacted the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, a small body just 530 feet (160 meters) in diameter. It orbits a larger, 2, 560-foot (780-meter) asteroid called Didymos.

Detailed explanation-4: -The DART mission was launched at 10:20 p.m. local time on Nov. 23, 2021, (1:20 a.m. EDT, or 0620 GMT Nov.

Detailed explanation-5: -American Space Agency, NASA has announced to launch “asteroid-killing Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft” on November 24, 2021. Key Points The spacecraft will be launched, aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. It will be launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.

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