{"id":43135,"date":"2022-09-23T17:08:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T21:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=43135"},"modified":"2022-09-23T17:08:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T21:08:22","slug":"discovery-and-science-channel-to-air-nasas-double-asteroid-redirection-test-dart-on-monday-september-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/23\/discovery-and-science-channel-to-air-nasas-double-asteroid-redirection-test-dart-on-monday-september-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery and Science Channel to Air NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) on Monday, September 26"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Discovery Channel and Science Channel will air the feed for NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) in a live special, ASTEROID IMPACT LIVE: DART MISSION, airing on both networks Monday, September 26 from 6-7:30PM ET\/PT. The special and its simulcast coverage will be of the NASA feed of DART as the mission undergoes its final leg of its journey to make a first attempt to alter the course of an asteroid by intentionally crashing a spacecraft into it. The spacecraft has a camera with a feed back to Earth that will provide live, stunning visuals to the Discovery and Science audiences during the mission’s approach to the two asteroids.<\/p>\n

NASA’s DART Mission, built and managed for NASA by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, is humanity’s first attempt to change the motion of an asteroid in space by intentionally crashing a spacecraft into it. DART’s target asteroid is not a threat to Earth. However, it is the perfect testing ground to see if this method of asteroid deflection – known as the kinetic impactor technique – would be a viable way to protect our planet if an asteroid on a collision course with Earth were discovered in the future.<\/p>