article_snippet: Called the Hyper Velocity Asteroid Impact Vehicle (HAIV), Scientists wanting to develop a spacecraft carrying a nuclear device to blow up asteroids system would be able to launch and reach an Earth-bound asteroid within 100 days or so, destroying their system before their system reached our planet.
article_snippet: Called the Hypervelocity Asteroid Intercept Vehicle, or HAIV, the craft would rendezvous with an asteroid in deep space.
article_snippet: Once an asteroid had been located, the HAIV would be launched on one of several possible rockets, including a Delta IV or Atlas V.
article_snippet: the HAIV would then align the HAIV such that the HAIV would impact an asteroid, by matching the HAIV orbit.
article_snippet: On the left is a typical journey for the HAIV vehicle to intercept an asteroid that could dangerous to Earth.
article_snippet: However, in extreme cases with less than one year warning time and when all non-nuclear methods fail, we believe the HAIV system is the only and most appropriate technique currently available to defend Earth,’ The team said in a statement.
highlights_snippet: Hyper Velocity Asteroid Impact Vehicle (HAIV) will be a 'rapid' response .
  
highlights_snippet: Hyper Velocity Asteroid Impact Vehicle (HAIV) will blow up asteroids that could endanger Earth using a nuclear device .
  