Asteroid Redirection Test

nantic has raised 300 million dollars in funding, and that brings the company up to nine billion bucks. The launch vehicle will push a spacecraft called the dart that will use what nassau describes as a kinetic impactor technique to change the path of an asteroid travelling through space. Particular asteroid dart will aim for has the name dimorphos, and it circles around another larger asteroid called ditamus. And you can think of this as kind of like a game of galactic billiards - cuball hits arget ball, and that moves it out of way.