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i'm jasmine hopkins and this is kennedy

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final preparations are underway at

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vandenberg space force base in

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california for nasa's double asteroid

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redirection test or dart spacecraft

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dart is scheduled to launch aboard a

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spacex falcon 9 rocket from vandenberg's

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space launch complex 4 at 10 21 pm

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pacific time on november 23rd

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the dart mission will intentionally

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crash the spacecraft into an asteroid to

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see if it's an effective way to change

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the asteroid's course while dart's

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target asteroid is not a threat to earth

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this mission will determine the

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effectiveness of such an approach should

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an earth-threatening asteroid be

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discovered in the future

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nasa's launch services program based at

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kennedy space center in florida is

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managing the launch

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the imaging x-ray polarimetry explorer

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or xp spacecraft arrived at the cape

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canaveral space force station in florida

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earlier this month nasa's first mission

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of this kind ixp will study x-rays

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coming from some of the universe's most

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extreme sources including black holes

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and dead stars known as pulsars

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xp will fly three space telescopes with

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sensitive detectors to measure the

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polarization of cosmic x-rays allowing

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astronomers to answer fundamental

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questions about these extremely complex

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environments where gravitational

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electric and magnetic fields are at

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their limits

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teams expect to integrate the xp

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spacecraft with the launch vehicle

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during the last week of november in

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preparation for a december 9th launch

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aboard a spacex falcon 9 vehicle from

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kennedy's launch complex 39a this launch

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is also managed by nasa's launch

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