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NASA’s DART spacecraft was encapsulated inside the payload fairing of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Nov. 16. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman A small spacecraft set to launch on a collision course with an asteroid has been encapsulated inside the payload fairing of its Falcon 9 rocket for blastoff…

SpaceX is the company that will put the NASA DART mission into space. DART is NASA’s ambitious mission to test our ability to redirect an asteroid away from Earth using the impact of a spacecraft. The goal is to determine if the planet is ever threatened by an asteroid that…

    | Published: Saturday, November 20, 2021, 11:36 The number of asteroids coming into the Earth's orbit is numerous. NASA has been trying to explore what would happen if you crashed a satellite into the asteroid. Would this change the asteroid's course? To answer this question, NASA teamed up…

Since 2017, NASA has been in the process of testing to see whether crashing a satellite into an asteroid can change its course, enlisting the help of SpaceX on this endeavor in 2019. Today, the rocket company shared that it has completed a static fire test and is targeting November…

Media accreditation is now open for SpaceX’s 24th cargo resupply mission for NASA to the International Space Station...Read More

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A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 7:19 a.m...Read More

A Falcon 9 rocket climbs above a fog layer at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station with 53 Starlink internet satellites. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX shot 53 Starlink internet satellites into orbit on top of a Falcon 9 rocket Saturday from foggy Cape Canaveral, commencing a new phase of deploying the global…