I’m sure they did this whole thing on paper before executing, but why did they need to actually do it?
Normally, I’m all for funding space agencies, but there doesn’t seem like a whole lot of value in doing this. If you know all of variables in concept, you should be able predict that it would work. Right?
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I’m not sure you can say with confidence you can hit a small object with a satellite traveling at 12,000km/hr until you actually do it.
I think it makes sense to do a trial run before we have to take our real shot at an incoming asteroid that’s going to take us out. We’ve clocked asteroids going through our solar system at over 100,000km/hr! When a real threat is coming at us we may only get one shot at deflecting it.
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