A ranar 11 ga Afrilu, NASA ta ba da sanarwar cewa ta ba da kwangila ga SpaceX don aikin DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) don canza orbit na asteroids, wanda za a yi ta amfani da rokar Falcon 9 mai nauyi a watan Yuni 2021 daga Vandenberg Air. Force Base a California. Adadin kwangilar na SpaceX zai kasance dala miliyan 69. Farashin ya haɗa da ƙaddamarwa da duk ayyuka masu alaƙa.
DART wani aiki ne da aka haɓaka a dakin gwaje-gwajen Physics Applied Physics na Jami'ar Johns Hopkins a zaman wani ɓangare na Shirin Tsaron Duniya na NASA. A cikin aikin gwaji, kumbon zai yi amfani da injin roka mai amfani da wutar lantarki don tashi zuwa jirgin asteroid Didymos. Daga nan DART za ta yi karo da karamar Didymos, Didymoon, a gudun kusan kilomita shida a cikin dakika daya.
Masana ilmin taurari sun yi shirin yin nazari kan sauyin da ke tattare da kewayar karamin wata a sakamakon tasirin. Wannan zai taimaka wa masana kimiyya su kimanta tasirin wannan tsarin, wanda aka gabatar a matsayin daya daga cikin hanyoyin da za a bi don kawar da asteroids da ke barazana ga Duniya.
"SpaceX tana alfahari da ci gaba da samun nasarar haɗin gwiwarmu tare da NASA akan wannan muhimmin manufa ta duniya," in ji shugaban SpaceX Gwynne Shotwell a cikin sanarwar kamfanin. "Wannan kwangilar tana nuna amincewar NASA game da ikon Falcon 9 na yin ayyukan kimiyya masu mahimmanci yayin bayar da mafi kyawun farashi a cikin masana'antar."
source: 3dnews.ru