The Economic Times

In 2021, a spacecraft was launched on a first-ever suicide mission to try to deflect an asteroid on impact in space in the revolutionary planetary defense experiment: How NASAs DART mission changed an asteroids orbit

In 2021, a spacecraft was launched on a first-ever suicide mission to try to deflect an asteroid on impact in space in the revolutionary planetary defense experiment. NASAs Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, struck Dimorphos in 2022. The collision changed its orbit and showed that a kinetic impactor could alter an asteroids motion.