NASA to crash DART spacecraft into asteroid TODAY: Watch it LIVE online, know when, where
The day is finally here, when NASA will be testing its technology in a unique way. It will find out if it can protect and defend Earth against asteroids or comets that head towards it at high speed. NASA under its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission will be crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid called Dimorphos to test the defence mechanism today, September 26. DART will become the first ever space mission to demonstrate asteroid deflection by kinetic impactor. Also, the entire event will be broadcast live by NASA and people all over the world can watch it live online.
"Just 1 more day! DART will become the first-ever space mission to demonstrate #asteroid deflection by kinetic impactor. Are you ready to watch history in the making? Watch @NASA's #DARTMission LIVE tomorrow at 6pm ET. http://nasa.gov/live," NASA Asteroid Watch tweeted.
It can be known that the DART spacecraft will deliberately collide into the asteroid Dimorphos to change its speed and path. NASA has tweeted earlier, "on September 26, DART will intentionally crash into Dimorphos, the asteroid moonlet of Didymos. While the asteroid poses no threat to Earth, this is the world's first test of the kinetic impact technique, using a spacecraft to deflect an asteroid for planetary defense." Want to watch the historic event live online? Here is when and where.
On Monday, September 26 at 6 p.m. ET (3:30 a.m., IST), NASA will broadcast the live coverage of DART's impact with the asteroid Dimorphos on NASA TV and over its social media handles including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. The spacecraft will impact its target asteroid at 7:14 p.m. ET (4:44 a.m. IST), while at 8:00 p.m. ET (5:30 a.m. IST), the research organisation will host a post-impact press
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