Astronauts Hope to Protect Earth from a Killer Asteroid with the Launch of Sentinel Satellite

It may seem like a city-destroying asteroid is just the stuff of sci-fi novels, but new research reveals that the Earth is far more vulnerable to asteroid impacts than we ever though possible. In fact, a group of scientists say that we are ten times more likely to experience a collision than was previously believed, and that avoiding a serious collision has just been a matter of dumb luck.

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  • Update on NASA Killer Asteroid Deflection Test
    A NASA experiment that sent a spacecraft slamming into the side of an asteroid may have sent debris flying into space, possibly into the path of Mars.The asteroid, named Dimorphos, was hit by NASA's ...
    04/9/2024 - 6:28 am | View Link
  • Rocket with astronauts from NASA and Russia blasts off from Kazakhstan days after launch dramatically aborted
    A rocket taking astronauts from the US, Russia and Belarus to the International Space Station has successfully blasted off - days after its launch was ... set to return to Earth on 6 April.
    03/23/2024 - 3:41 am | View Link
  • SpaceX’s workhorse launch pad now has the accoutrements for astronauts
    Upgrades at SpaceX's most-used launch pad in Florida got a trial run Thursday with the liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket with a Dragon cargo ship heading for the International Space Station.
    03/21/2024 - 5:03 am | View Link
  • Russia's space agency aborts launch of 3 astronauts to the International Space Station; all are safe
    MOSCOW (AP) — Russia aborted the launch of three astronauts to the International ... NASA and its partners hope to continue operating the orbiting outpost until 2030. For Dyson, it was to ...
    03/20/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
  • Crew-8 launch recap: NASA, SpaceX send astronauts en route to International Space Station
    Crew-8 launch recap: Scroll down for live coverage of the Sunday, March 3, liftoff of Crew-8 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center. Welcome to FLORIDA TODAY's Space Team live ...
    03/3/2024 - 10:51 am | View Link
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