Correct Answer : Option (C) - NASA
NASA has announced that Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft has successfully managed to change the motion of the asteroid 'Dimorphos'.
This is the first demonstration of the “kinetic impactor” method of asteroid mitigation
It was launched in November 2021 and crashed into the space rock on September 26, 2022
Prior, it took
Dimorphos 11 hours and 55 minutes to orbit its asteroid Didymos, now it changed the
moonlet asteroid’s orbit by
32 minutes..
Source : CNN
