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SpaceX accepts delivery of NASA’s DART asteroid impact spacecraft

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NASA says that the Double Asteroid Redirect Mission (DART) impactor spacecraft has arrived at SpaceX’s Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) facilities for a launch later this month. DART will crash into a small asteroid 6.5 DART will crash into a small asteroid 6.5 Technicians unpack DART after its VSFB arrival.

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NASA’s DART mission: The importance of planetary defence

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There has been a recent breakthrough in NASA’s DART mission, highlighting the importance of planetary defence systems. The post NASA’s DART mission: The importance of planetary defence appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Ruff News for Waymo After Test Vehicle Runs Over Dog

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A Waymo autonomous test vehicle struck and killed a small dog in San Francisco last month, with news emerging after an incident report filed with the California Department of Motor Vehicles became public. Most of us have been in a situation where an animal darts out into traffic and directly into the vehicle we’re driving.

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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket aces first interplanetary launch

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SpaceX has aced its first operational interplanetary launch, sending NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft on its way out of the Earth-Moon system as part of the world’s first planetary defense mission. DART, on the other hand, has only just begun its mission. kilometers per second (4.7

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SpaceX almost ready to launch NASA asteroid impact spacecraft

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Revealed as a side note during live coverage of the space agency’s successful Landsat-9 launch, NASA says that the Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) spacecraft has arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) ahead of a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch less than two months from now. 23: Falcon 9 with DART from Vandenberg • Dec.

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SpaceX, NASA set to launch humanity’s first ‘dinosaur avenger’ spacecraft [webcast]

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SpaceX is firmly on track to launch NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission – sometimes half-seriously referred to as the first spacecraft designed to avenge the dinosaurs – at 10:21 pm PST, Tuesday, November 23rd (06:21 UTC 24 Nov). Falcon 9 is ready for its first interplanetary launch.

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SpaceX rocket sails into California port after interplanetary launch

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On November 24th, Falcon 9 B1063 lifted off from SpaceX’s West Coast SLC-4E launch site for the second time in about a year, successfully sending an expendable upper stage and NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft on their way to interplanetary space. NASA’s DART mission booster inbound and Port of Long Beach.