Nasa Has A New System To Spot Asteroids That Might Hit The Earth
NASA is expecting a “rapid uptick” in new near-Earth astroid (NEA) discoveries thanks to new satellites coming online in coming years, such as NASA’s upcoming Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope and Chile’s Vera C. Rubin Observatory. It says new NEA discoveries currently happen at a rate of 3,000 per year. Sentry-II is a next-generation impact-monitoring system that could support efforts like the DART, or Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART), mission that headed to space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in November....