NASA and SpaceX ready to crush spacecraft into asteroids

Due to launch later this month, the DART mission will help understand how future Earth-threatening asteroids can be realigned – it will also fundamentally change the way people relate to our solar system.

As if streaming audio directly to our brains and filling the world with Tesla’s humanoid bots weren’t enough. SpaceX founder Elon Musk is relying even more on his evil tech master vibes with plans to reorganize the layout of our solar system. Okay, so that’s not entirely true. The joint SpaceX/NASA project aims to protect the earth (but that’s how all good stories about super villains begin).

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launch is scheduled for later this month.

As SpaceX states, “NASA intentionally smashed the DART spacecraft into an asteroid to see. If this was an effective way to change course if an asteroid threatening Earth was discovered in the future.”

The 550-kilogram DART probe won’t touch the asteroid in question the 160-meter space rock Dimorphos. Until late September or early October 2022 and should receive essential data for predicting future asteroids. Earth.

Neither Dimorphos nor Didim are in danger of colliding with our planet, although that will happen in 2022 and 2024 for 100 years. However, the PDCO also stated: “So far, only 40 percent of these asteroids have been discovered.

In addition to jokes about Elon Musk’s ruthlessness, space experts have real ethical concerns about the spacecraft’s crash into an asteroid. Which marks an entirely new relationship between humans and the solar system we inhabit – a relationship we don’t take for granted. Through it navigates but exerts influence on its orbital system.

“People are like – we can do anything in the solar system. We can even get rid of it,” said Eli Armstrong, a space geographer at the University of Delaware (via Space.com). “The idea of ​​moving, exploiting, and destroying or transforming natural capital like rocks. And asteroids is fundamentally linked to the imperial worldview, which allows people to do what they want.