Russian: Three rockets on duty can eliminate the threat of an asteroid to Earth.

Xinhua News Agency, Moscow, May 23rd (reported by Dong Aibo) - Anatoly Zaitsev, the director of Russia's Center for Protecting the Earth from Planetary Impacts, stated on the 22nd that placing three special launch vehicles, each carrying an observation satellite, a reconnaissance satellite, and a space interceptor spacecraft, into "combat readiness status" could reduce the threat of asteroids to Earth by 99.9%.