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How NASA’s DART Mission Proved We Can Deflect an Asteroid
NASA’s DART spacecraft crashed into an asteroid at over six kilometers per second to test Earth’s first planetary defense ...
This “City-Killer” Asteroid Has a 4% Chance of Hitting the Moon
YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...
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New Interstellar Object Stuns Scientists as It Zooms through Solar System
All eyes are on Comet 3I/ATLAS as astronomers worldwide chase the exotic ice ball through our solar system ...
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Successive Convexification for Asteroid 6-DoF Powered Descent with PINN Gravity Model - IEEE Xplore
In this paper, regarding the asteroid powered de-scent scenario, the asteroid gravity PINN model and the successive convexification method are adopted to solve the fuel-consumption minimal 6-DoF ...
NASA Reveals First-Ever Full Image of Peanut-Shaped Asteroid Donaldjohanson
Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...