Tag: AIM
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Future of asteroid deflection mission to be decided soon
Artist’s concept of the European-built AIM spacecraft, along with two proposed deployable CubeSats, observing the collision of NASA’s DART impactor with the moon of asteroid Didymos. Credit: ESA – ScienceOffice.org Decisions on the future of a joint robotic mission between NASA and the European Space Agency to demonstrate the ability to deflect an asteroid on…
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International effort to understand asteroids and protect Earth from their threat
Two robotic missions, aimed at gaining further understanding into the threat of asteroids, passed major milestones this week. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and ESA’s Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM) are set to travel deep into space to probe the space rocks that will also become the focus of human Beyond Earth Orbit (BEO) space exploration throughout the…