In the last decades, we have realized that asteroid impact is a natural disaster threat. The goal of planetary defense is to ensure that humankind can prevent the collision of an asteroid with Earth. NASA's DART mission and ESA's Hera mission together will be the first full asteroid deflection test"

Join the International Space Science Institute-Beijing (ISSI-BJ) on Wednesday, July 21 at 4 pm (GMT+8) to learn more about how NASA's DART mission and ESA's Hera mission will run the first full asteroid deflection test. In 2022, DART will crash into Dimorphos, the moon of asteroid Didymos, to change its orbital period. To be launched in 2024, Hera will reach Didymos at the end of 2026.

Speaker: Michael Küppers, project scientist of HERA (European Space Agency)

Read more and attend the webinar here (free): http://www.issibj.ac.cn/News/202107/t20210702_273316.html

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