SCIENTISTS PLAN asteroid-diversion test mission. “The 500kg impact craft, which will be called Hidalgo, will ram into the asteroid at a speed of around six miles a second. The orbitor, called Sancho, will scan the collision and monitor whether the asteroid changes direction at all.”
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