Upcoming webinar organized by the International Space Science Institute-Beijing (ISSI-BJ) on Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission of NASA with Prof. Andy Cheng (John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory).

DART will be the first space experiment to demonstrate asteroid deflection by a kinetic impactor.

Read more & register: http://www.issibj.ac.cn/News/202104/t20210423_267437.html

About Andy Cheng

Andy Cheng is Chief Scientist for planetary defense at JHU/APL and a Lead Investigator for the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission, the first mission to show asteroid deflection by a kinetic impactor. He previously served as Deputy Chief Scientist for Space Science in NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, at NASA Headquarters, from 2007 to 2008.

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This webinar is organized by the International Space Science Institute in Beijing (ISSI-BJ) and it's part of the ISSI-BJ On Things to Come seminar series.

The ISSI-BJ On Things to Come seminars aim to introduce to the scientific community ongoing and new space missions organized by different space agencies and it will allow the audience to interact with the speaker and ask questions about the projects.

The International Space Science Institute in Beijing (ISSI-BJ) is a non-profit research organization that aims to contribute to the achievement of a deeper scientific and technological understanding of future space missions and of the scientific results from current and past missions through multidisciplinary research.