Arecibo telescope collapse may complicate NASA asteroid mission – Space Daily

The destructive collapse in December of the world’s most powerful radar telescope, Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, will make some observations of an upcoming asteroid mission difficult, according to NASA.
The primary goal of the asteroid experiment, or DART mission, is to crash a spacecraft into a small moon that circles asteroid Didymos in 2022, and to observe how the impact affects its motion. The project may help NASA develop a method to redirect an asteroid headed toward Earth someday.
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