FRANCE: National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA and European Space Agency or ESA are collaborating together to understand how the asteroid will react when it goes head on collision with the spacecraft. This is first attempt to understand the consequences of the impact.
According to the scientists, the missions will provide an understanding and prepare them to deflect an asteroid speeding towards earth in future.
ESA is coming out with an Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment mission or AIM mission which will map the targeted asteroid before it is smashed by the NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART.
ESA is planning for the launch of AIM mission from this month and it will be launched in October 2020.
