Pa Epulo 11, NASA idalengeza kuti idapereka mgwirizano ku SpaceX ya ntchito ya DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) kuti isinthe kanjira ka ma asteroids, yomwe idzachitika pogwiritsa ntchito rocket yolemetsa ya Falcon 9 mu June 2021 kuchokera ku Vandenberg Air. Force Base ku California. Kuchuluka kwa mgwirizano wa SpaceX kudzakhala $69 miliyoni. Mtengo umaphatikizapo kukhazikitsa ndi ntchito zonse zogwirizana.
DART ndi pulojekiti yopangidwa ku Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory monga gawo la NASA's Planetary Defense Program. Mu ntchito yoyesera, chombocho chidzagwiritsa ntchito injini ya roketi yamagetsi kuwulukira ku Didymos asteroid. Kenako DART idzagundana ndi mwezi waung'ono wa Didymos, Didymoon, pa liwiro la pafupifupi makilomita asanu ndi limodzi pa sekondi imodzi.
Akatswiri a sayansi ya zakuthambo akukonzekera kuphunzira za kusintha kwa mwezi waungβono chifukwa cha mmene mwezi umayendera. Izi zithandiza asayansi kuwunika momwe njirayi imathandizira, yomwe ikufotokozedwa ngati imodzi mwa njira zopatsira ma asteroid omwe amawopseza Dziko Lapansi.
"SpaceX ndiyonyadira kupitiliza mgwirizano wathu wopambana ndi NASA pa ntchito yofunikayi," a Gwynne Shotwell Purezidenti wa SpaceX adatero m'mawu akampani. "Kontrakitala iyi ikuwonetsa chidaliro cha NASA kuti Falcon 9 imatha kuchita ntchito zofunika kwambiri za sayansi pomwe ikupereka mtengo wabwino kwambiri woyambitsa bizinesiyo."
Source: 3dnews.ru