Lab developing device to help Earth dodge asteroids – Yahoo Finance Australia

In a corner of the campus at Riga Technical University, a team of scientists is working on technology that could one day stop asteroids from smashing into Earth.
The high-precision timers being built by hand in the lab of Latvian start-up Eventech are currently being used to track satellites.
This year, the company won a European Space Agency (ESA) contract to develop timers that will study the possibility of re-directing an asteroid before it comes too close to our planet for comfort.
NASA plans…

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