Ka la 11 Mmesa, NASA e phatlalalitse hore e fane ka konteraka ho SpaceX bakeng sa thomo ea DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) ho fetola potoloho ea li-asteroid, e tla etsoa ho sebelisoa rokete e boima ea Falcon 9 ka Phuptjane 2021 ho tsoa Vandenberg Air. Force Base e California. Chelete ea konteraka ea SpaceX e tla ba $ 69 milione. Theko e kenyelletsa ho qala le lits'ebeletso tsohle tse amanang.
DART ke projeke e entsweng ho Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory e le karolo ya NASA's Planetary Defense Programme. Morerong oa liteko, sefofane se tla sebelisa enjene ea rokete ea motlakase ho fofela ho asteroid ea Didymos. Joale DART e tla thulana le khoeli e nyenyane ea Didymos, Didymoon, ka lebelo la lik’hilomithara tse tšeletseng ka motsotsoana.
Litsebi tsa linaleli li rera ho ithuta phetoho ea potoloho ea khoeli e nyenyane ka lebaka la tšusumetso eo. Sena se tla thusa bo-rasaense ho lekola katleho ea mokhoa ona, o sisintsoeng e le e 'ngoe ea litsela tsa ho khelosa li-asteroid tse sokelang Lefatše.
"SpaceX e motlotlo ho ntšetsa pele tšebelisano ea rona e atlehileng le NASA mosebetsing ona oa bohlokoa oa lipolanete," Mopresidente oa SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell o boletse polelong ea k'hamphani. "Konteraka ena e totobatsa tšepo ea NASA ea bokhoni ba Falcon 9 ba ho etsa mesebetsi ea bohlokoa ea saense ha e ntse e fana ka litšenyehelo tse ntle ka ho fetisisa tsa ho qala indasteri."
Source: 3dnews.ru