The European space Agency (ESA) is looking for new ideas that will help develop American-European programme deviations of asteroids from our planet. The mission, which is scheduled for October 2022 includes sending a pair of spacecraft in low-earth asteroid, one of which will try to change its trajectory, and the other will monitor the results from the outside.

The purpose of the mission is to explore the physics of high-speed collisions between ships and the asteroid. The experiment will be tested on a binary pair of asteroids with a diameter of 150 meters and weighing more than 300 kg, which is moving at a relative speed of 6,25 km/S.

At that speed, the materials at the point of impact will turn into plasma. It will be a very powerful blow, but the question is, how would the asteroid could deviate after the collision? For this reason, the team AIDA chose a binary pair of asteroids that makes it easier to measure and evaluate the deviation due to weak gravitational forces. It is hoped that this will change the trajectory of the asteroid by 0.5-1%.

In addition, according to scientists, this project has other goals. It can also allow us to look at the history of the early Solar system, and to assess the threats posed by space debris.