Use a spacecraft to change meteorites

The European Space Agency (ESA) is planning to carry out a similar mission in the fictional film Armageddon. In this film, actor Bruce Willis and his team are tasked with blowing up a giant meteorite that is heading straight to Earth.

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The Daily Mail reported that the European Space Agency (ESA) intends to have a satellite crash into a meteorite with tremendous speed in 2015, to check if the collision can deflect flight. of meteors or not. From the results of this experiment, scientists will consider using that method to protect the Earth from the risk of collisions with meteorites in the universe.

Simulation mission Don Quijote mission of ESA

The mission named Don Quijote will include launching two spacecraft to an asteroid near Earth. Later, a "suicide" spacecraft will crash into a meteorite, the remaining spacecraft will fly around the meteor's orbit to analyze data from the collision.

A possible goal of the mission is 99942 Apophis meteorite with a width of about 487m. The reason is that, astronomers estimate that the meteorite has 1 / 250,000 risk of colliding with the Earth in 2036.

The "suicide" Hidalgo spacecraft, weighing 500kg, will crash into meteors at a rate of about 9.6 km / sec. Meanwhile, the Sancho spacecraft will be responsible for tracking the meteorite's movement direction before and after the collision.

Meanwhile, the US Space Agency (NASA) aspires to bring people to the surface of a meteorite over the next 15 years. However, putting people on asteroid is not easy because meteors have almost no gravity.

To solve this problem, NASA intends to design spacecraft capable of anchoring to the surface of meteorites or using a spider-like ligament system that helps adventurers cling to it.