AIM or Asteroid Impact Mission, the earth in the future to protect against hitting planeto lwa den. With the immune system that consists of DART of NASA and the AIM of the ESA in the future may be planeto lwa the to change direction.
The main goal of AIM is to learn how humankind can protect against a direct impact of an asteroid. You would like to receive ESA the planetoïdenpaar Didymos study to its properties to understand better. AIM should be in 2022 high resolution photos of the smaller of the two asteroids at 11 million miles away.
Before a working system can be built, the first surface and the internal structure of asteroids better understood. To achieve that wants, ESA, in 2020, a mission to send up into space to afbuigingstechnieken, or deflection technologies, to test that an asteroid in a different direction.
At the same time, ESA is a new communication system testing using a laser beam the images back to the earth to send. Also send AIM a small lander to the asteroid to the internal structure of the moon with sonar to explore. Then remove AIM to a safe distance from the asteroid to the impact of the NASA-built asteroid-impacter DART to watch. Together forms the system AIDA, Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment mission.
Through AIM, the impact is tested of DART and how communication between the two satellites. But before that, the project should still be approved. Until that time, we have to make do with this video.