Could This NASA Technology One Day Save Humanity?
Last September, equipped with a state-of-the-art imaging system that worked with a set of targeting, guidance, navigation, and control algorithms, NASA’s DART spacecraft autonomously identified and distinguished between two asteroids, targeted the body headed toward Earth, and crashed into it.
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