Musi waKubvumbi 11, NASA yakazivisa kuti yakanga yapa kondirakiti kuSpaceX yeDART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission yekushandura orbit yeasteroids, iyo ichaitwa pachishandiswa rinorema-basa Falcon 9 roketi muna Chikumi 2021 kubva kuVandenberg Air. Force Base muCalifornia. Mari yekondirakiti yeSpaceX ichave $69 miriyoni. Mutengo unosanganisira kutanga uye ese ane hukama masevhisi.
DART ipurojekiti yakagadzirwa paJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory sechikamu cheNASA's Planetary Defense Program. Muchinangwa chekuyedza, chitundumuseremusere chichashandisa injini yeroketi yemagetsi kubhururuka kuenda kuDidymos asteroid. DART inozopesana nemwedzi mudiki weDidymos, Didymoon, ichimhanya makiromita matanhatu pasekondi.
Nyanzvi dzenyeredzi dzinoronga kudzidza nezvekuchinja kwemwedzi mudiki semugumisiro wekukanganisa. Izvi zvichabatsira masayendisiti kuongorora kushanda kweiyi nzira, yakarongwa seimwe yenzira dzekutsausa maasteroid anotyisidzira Nyika.
"SpaceX inodada kuenderera mberi nekubatana kwedu kwakabudirira neNASA pane iyi yakakosha basa repakati penyika," Mutungamiriri weSpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell akadaro mukutaura kwekambani. "Chibvumirano ichi chinosimbisa chivimbo cheNASA mukugona kweFalcon 9 kuita mishini-yakakosha sainzi mishoni apo ichipa mutengo wakanakisa wekutanga muindasitiri."
Source: 3dnews.ru