Space & Defense entity
Every one of those 1 sits in a single category, aerospace. Of the tracked stories, 1 of 1 also mention Dart spacecraft, the most common co-covered peer. Source depth averages 6 original sources per story, versus 2.8 across the same-window beat baseline.
Last mentioned: Jul 28, 2026
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Coverage balance Positive coverage leads. Positive coverage exceeds negative coverage by 100 percentage points.
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Every one of those 1 sits in a single category, aerospace. Of the tracked stories, 1 of 1 also mention Dart spacecraft, the most common co-covered peer. Source depth averages 6 original sources per story, versus 2.8 across the same-window beat baseline. At 8, the average consequence score sits above the same-window beat average of 7.7. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign appears in 1 tracked Space & Defense story from March 7, 2026.
Computed from the 1 stories linked to this entity, with beat comparisons drawn from all 37 Space & Defense stories published in the same date window. Shares are omitted below five stories and comparisons below a twenty-story baseline.
Coverage cohort
Other entities that clear the same relevance threshold in stories also covering University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Shared-story counts are live from our verified record — not editorial picks.
Solar Orbit Confirmation
International researchers confirm the impact also shifted the system's orbit around the sun.
Local Orbit Change
NASA confirms the impact shortened Dimorphos' orbit around Didymos by 32 minutes.
Kinetic Impact
The DART spacecraft successfully slams into the asteroid Dimorphos.
DART Launch
NASA launches the Double Asteroid Redirection Test from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
A landmark study confirms that NASA’s DART mission successfully altered the solar orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos, the first time humanity has intentionally changed a celestial body's path around the sun. The findings validate the 'kinetic impactor' strategy as a viable long-term defense mechanism against potential Earth-bound threats.
Source: Associated Press (us) · Associated Press (US)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is linked from 1 story on this site, each scored at or above our 35% relevance threshold — see how these pages are built.
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