NASA plans to test asteroid deflection technique designed to prevent Earth impact

[rangerrebew]

NASA plans to test asteroid deflection technique designed to prevent Earth impact
July 4, 2017 by Geoff Brown
 

NASA is moving forward with a plan to develop a refrigerator-sized spacecraft capable of deflecting asteroids and preventing them from colliding with Earth.

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, is being designed and would be built and managed by scientists at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. NASA approved a move from concept development to the preliminary design phase on June 23.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-07-nasa-asteroid-deflection-technique-earth.html#jCp

[Cripplecreek]

The impact would have to happen way out with a large and dangerous asteroid. Or many years before  predicted impact.

Personally I think the job will be contracted out to asteroid mining companies in the future.