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The Armageddon-style apocalypse defence trial is. Its humanitys first. Asteroid Heading Past Earth Nasa Asteroid Earth Astromicalevents Solar System Our Solar System Space Rock NASA has successfully launched a spacecraft that will ultimately crash into an asteroid 11million miles from Earth next year. . NASA NASA to launch spacecraft to deflect asteroids path its first mission in planetary defence. NASAs billion-dollar Lucy asteroid probe is safely on its way but engineers are studying telemetry indicating one of its two circular solar arrays may not be fully deployed and latched in place the agency said in a blog post Sunday. NASA is debating whether to try to fix a jammed solar panel on its newly launched Lucy spacecraft en route to explore an unprecedented number of asteroids. New spacecraft will test asteroid deflection methods The DART satellite will test how easy it is to change the course of potentially dangerous asteroids. ...