NASA. The danger posed by asteroids to the planet Earth brings an amazing announcement from the American space agency, which amazes the entire humanity with a collaboration it makes with the Europeans. Next week, researchers from NASA and ESA, the European space agency, will meet in Rome to discuss a mission that will bring the first two ships to asteroids in an attempt to try to divert their trajectory.
NASA. I have already talked to you for some time about the Americans' DART project, which aims to modify the trajectories of asteroids that can hit the Earth, and a first verification of its capacity will be done in the coming years. NASA and ESA will send two spacecraft to two asteroids that will land on them, and at some point they will be used to try to change their trajectory on the way to Earth, these not being a real danger.
GODMOTHER. ASTEROID DANGER and an AMAZING ANNOUNCEMENT regarding the ESA
NASA. DART is America's system for deflecting asteroids headed for Earth, and ESA has a similar system called HERA, both of which will be discussed at next week's meeting in Rome. It seems that both NASA and ESA will test DART and HERA in a combined mission that will send spacecraft to a large and a small asteroid, both speeding toward Earth.
"HERA will show us what no one has seen before. This ESA mission will be humanity's first-ever spacecraft to visit a double asteroid, Didymos. HERA is run by a multinational team of scientists and engineers. At the moment, all we have is many years and theories, but HERA will revolutionize our understanding of asteroids and how to protect ourselves from them.”
NASA. Both space agencies will carefully analyze the asteroids before their ships collide with their surface, and only then will they know how to think about the system that will be able to divert the trajectory of cosmic rocks in the future. This is the first such ambitious mission that NASA and ESA are doing together, but the goal is to develop at least a system to protect the earth from the asteroids that will inevitably hit the planet in the future.
NASA. Together with ESA, the spacecraft will be sent to asteroids at the end of 2020 or the beginning of 2021, but they will not reach the cosmic rocks until sometime in the fall of 2022.
