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The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was a NASA space mission aimed at testing a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects (NEOs). [4] [5] It was designed to assess how much a spacecraft impact deflects an asteroid through its transfer of momentum when hitting the asteroid head-on. [6]
The spacecraft, known as Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart), is expected to collide with the 170-metre wide (560ft) asteroid at 00:14 UK time on September 27. (PA Graphics)
The last complete image of asteroid moonlet Dimorphos was taken by the DRACO imager on NASA's DART mission at a distance of about 7 miles (12 kilometers) and 2 seconds before impact.
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Dimorphos has a diameter of 177 meters (581 ft) across its longest extent and it was the target of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), a NASA space mission that deliberately collided a spacecraft with the moon on 26 September 2022 to alter its orbit around Didymos.
When the NASA DART spacecraft made a kamikaze-like crash into an asteroid last month, NASA knew it had hit a bullseye. Now the space agency says the data is in and DART's collision with the ...
NASA DART may refer to: NASA's DART (satellite) , intended to demonstrate an automated navigation and rendezvous capability, launched in April 2005 NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test , a planetary defense against near-Earth objects (NEO), launched in November 2021
NASA’s DART spacecraft intentionally collided with an asteroid on Monday evening, in an attempt to alter the space rock’s trajectory. The mission tested technology that could help defend Earth ...