BOOM! Smashing news for Southern Spars! ☄️ 💥 🛰️ #DARTMission – the world’s first planetary defence technology demonstration – was successfully completed yesterday by @nasa! After 10 months in space, a satellite impacted into an asteroid moonlet, demonstrating the ability to knock the moonlet out of orbit by a small, but measurable margin - a method that could theoretically be used in the event of a threat to the planet in the future. Southern Spars proudly manufactured the deployable booms that hold the 22sqm solar arrays providing power to the Xenon Ion Thruster which propels the satellite. DART is the second fastest and farthest our laminates have ever travelled, following our booms which are deployed on the International Space Station, which covers 150,000,000km/year at 28,000kph! Full story via the link in our bio 👉 @southernspars Image: NASA / Johns Hopkins APL #NASA #Aerospace #Engineering #CarbonSpars #CarbonFibre