![]() But it’s rare that it’s quite so obvious: the DART mission could one day stop humanity from being wiped out. Scientists will often tell you about how their work is helping humanity. Monday 26 September 2022 15:28, Andrew Griffin How the DART mission could save life on Earth If that happens then there won’t be a launch until November at the earliest. Today, Nasa could announce that they’ll have to move the rocket back off its launchpad. But a variety of problems – the latest being a tropical storm – have caused it to be delayed. The rocket was meant to set off weeks ago, and after delays was meant to be setting off today. But it could also be dealing with yet more worries from another source: the Moon, and the Artemis rocket that aims to get there. Monday 26 September 2022 14:27, Andrew Griffinīy the end of the day, Nasa could have a big success on its hands with DART. That stream is here: Nasa also looking towards the Moon and Artemis That will give just the pictures, without the explanation, so might be harder to follow but more peaceful. Nasa will also be providing images from the spacecraft itself, starting at 5.30pm, through its media channel. The best way to watch them tends to be through YouTube, though they can be found on Nasa’s own website, and that stream is below: Nasa will be hosting live coverage from 6pm local eastern time, through its NASA TV platforms. Monday 26 September 2022 13:24, Andrew Griffin (It might take a short while to know it has actually done so, successfully, with engineers needing to receive and then pick through the data.) How to watch live Nasa predicts that DART will crash into its asteroid, Dimorphos, at 7.14pm local time on Monday evening. Monday 26 September 2022 13:22, Andrew Griffin to The Independent’s live coverage of Nasa’s DART mission, its plan to crash into an asteroid to try out how it might save Earth. Monday 26 September 2022 12:51, Andrew Griffin Nasa has a live stream of the event, which you can find at the top of our live blog below. It will be the first time humanity has changed the motion of an asteroid, or any celestial body. The mission’s finale tested the ability of a spacecraft to alter an asteroid’s trajectory with sheer kinetic force, plowing into the object at high speed to nudge it astray just enough to keep our planet out of harm’s way. The cube-shaped “impactor” vehicle, roughly the size of a vending machine with two rectangular solar arrays, flew into the asteroid Dimorphos, about as large as a football stadium, and self-destructed around 7.14pm EDT (11pm GMT) some 6.8 million miles (11 million km) from Earth. The test of the world’s first planetary defense system will determine how prepared we are to prevent a doomsday collision with Earth. Nasa‘s asteroid-deflecting DART spacecraft successfully slammed into its target on Monday, 10 months after launch.
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