The kinetic impactor programme that smashed a spacecraft into a football field-sized asteroid last year, managed to change its orbit by 33 minutes
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Didymos asteroid
DART’s success in pinpointing and colliding with an asteroid gives hope to Earth
The first-ever mission of planetary defence system to deflect asteroids on collision course with Earth is successful as NASA slams 570kg spacecraft into Dimorphos
