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NASA successfully shifted an asteroid's orbit – DART spacecraft crashed into and moved Dimorphos

  • Written by David Barnhart, Professor of Astronautics, University of Southern California
NASA successfully shifted an asteroid's orbit – DART spacecraft crashed into and moved DimorphosThe Double Asteroid Redirection Test successfully changed the orbit of the small moonlet Dimorphos. NASA/Johns Hopkins APL

NASA recently crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in an attempt to push the rocky traveler off its trajectory. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test – or DART – was meant to test one potential strategy for...

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