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Don Quijote is a proposed space probe under development by the European Space Agency which would study the effects of crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid. The mission is intended to test whether a spacecraft could successfully deflect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. The orbiter is being designed to last for seven years.The mission is still in the planning stages with launch dates proposed for 2013 or 2015.

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