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HAMMER Spacecraft

HAMMER stands for Hypervelocity Asteroid Mitigation Mission for Emergency Response. It is a nuclear spacecraft made by a joint venture between NASA, the US National Security Administration and a weapons lab from the US Energy Department. The spacecraft aims to ..

Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)

NASA is developing Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the first-ever mission that will deflect a near-Earth asteroid. The DART will be built and managed by the John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). It is a proposed space probe that would demonstrate the ..

101955 Bennu: The OSIRIS-REx Mission and Its Significance

The OSIRIS-REx mission is a NASA spacecraft mission that was launched in 2016 to explore an asteroid known as 101955 Bennu. The mission’s goal is to collect a sample of Bennu’s surface material and return it to Earth for analysis. ..