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☄️ Kinetic Impactor Mission Planner (2D)

Plan a DART-style kinetic impactor mission in 2D: choose impactor mass, closing speed and lead time before Earth encounter, launch it, and watch the momentum-transfer Δv reshape the asteroid's orbit and miss distance in a top-down orbital view.

Aerospace Engineering & Orbital Mechanics2DAdvanced60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

⚙ Under the hood

Plan a DART-style kinetic impactor mission in a top-down 2D orbital view: set the impactor spacecraft's mass, closing speed and lead time before the predicted Earth encounter, then launch it and watch the momentum-transfer delta-v (beta * m_impactor * v_impactor / m_asteroid) reshape the asteroid's orbit under live RK4 solar-gravity propagation. Distinct from the kid-friendly defend-earth game, this is a quantitative mission-planning tool modeled on the real DART/Hera missions, showing exact orbital elements and miss distance.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install