Author: Nathan Marder
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Close-Up Views of NASA’s DART Impact to Inform Planetary Defense
On Sept. 11, 2022, engineers at a flight control center in Turin, Italy, sent a radio signal into deep space. Its destination was NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft, which was flying toward an asteroid more than 5 million…
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Natural Disasters and NASA—What Is The Agency’s Role? An Interview with Michael Goodman
Working with basic researchers, engineers, and applied scientists–and a dozen satellite sensors—Michael Goodman helps assemble and coordinate NASA’s response to natural disasters and hazards.