Haha, it will put the once harmless asteroid on a new collision course with Earth? 🤣
“Haha, it will put the once harmless asteroid on a new collision course with Earth?”
That is a very just and fair question. Considering gross incompetence.
“The mission is designed as a test run for planetary defense with the intention of proving that a deep space collision can alter the orbit of a space rock.”
If it is not designed to alter it how would they then know it did alter it? You can bet it has explosives and will alter it somehow. Away or towards is the question...
They need to stop playing with these things...