{"id":208333,"date":"2022-09-27T20:37:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T15:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=208333"},"modified":"2022-09-27T20:37:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T15:07:44","slug":"nasas-risk-focus-adds-up-and-so-does-the-us-feds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nasas-risk-focus-adds-up-and-so-does-the-us-feds\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s risk focus adds up and so does the US Fed\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article\u00a0<strong>\u201c<\/strong><strong>Nasa\u2019s risk focus adds up and so does the US Fed\u2019s\u201d <\/strong>published in\u00a0<strong>The Live Mint<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>27<sup>th<\/sup> September 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: <\/strong><strong>GS 3 \u2013 Science and technology development<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance:\u00a0<\/strong><strong>problems associated with space weaponization.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><strong>NASA<\/strong> is estimated to have invested above $320 million in Dart (Double Asteroid Redirection Test). It is the US space agency\u2019s project to protect the planet from hitting any asteroid headed for earth.<\/p>\n<p>NASA launched its <strong>Dart (<\/strong><strong>Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft<\/strong> in November 2021 with Didymos in its target sights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Didymos <\/strong>is a large asteroid which is 11 million km away. NASA is planning to hit the asteroid with Dart.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the use of Dart project?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s Dart project assures everyone on the earth to save the world from any such situation arising out the asteroid hitting the earth.<\/p>\n<p>It would coordinate with other space agencies of the countries to execute the mission in saving the earth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the problems associated with such space missions?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cost:<\/strong> The cost of the mission is huge when compared to the probability of an asteroid hitting the Earth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alteration in data:<\/strong> Further, drones at over 25,000 kmph may alter the orbiter\u2019s speed and make it difficult for NASA to detect and study.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Probability:<\/strong> The probability for an asteroid to hit the earth is very low. Till now, Nasa knows of no asteroid or comet that is on the course to hit the earth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For example<\/strong>, last year Asteroid Bennu\u2019s was estimated to crash into Earth till 2300 CE. Its probability was 1 in 1,750 and it\u2019s still highly unlikely to happen.<\/p>\n<p>However, Dart can be useful in the bad times when such situation arises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cNasa\u2019s risk focus adds up and so does the US Fed\u2019s\u201d published in\u00a0The Live Mint\u00a0on\u00a027th September 2022. Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Science and technology development Relevance:\u00a0problems associated with space weaponization. News: NASA is estimated to have invested above $320 million in Dart (Double Asteroid Redirection Test). It is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nasas-risk-focus-adds-up-and-so-does-the-us-feds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASA\u2019s risk focus adds up and so does the US Fed\u2019s<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10501],"class_list":["post-208333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-live-mint","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704576828},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}