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11-24-2021, 07:51 AM
Can we change the motion of an asteroid?
The DART Mission is set to be the first to try!
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is a spacecraft designed to impact an asteroid as a test of technology to see if it can change the motion of an asteroid in space. The goal of the mission is to see if intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid is an effective way to change its course, should an Earth-threatening asteroid be discovered in the future. DART’s target is the binary near-Earth asteroid Didymos and its moonlet, which pose no threat to Earth.
This mission is targeted to launch at 1:21 a.m. EST, Nov. 24 (06:21 UTC), aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
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Today's launch (Tuesday, Nov. 24) was a success and DART spacecraft has now separated from the Falcon 9 second stage and is flying on it's own, which happened live approx 45 minutes ago.
https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/dart/dart-news
The DART Mission is set to be the first to try!
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is a spacecraft designed to impact an asteroid as a test of technology to see if it can change the motion of an asteroid in space. The goal of the mission is to see if intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid is an effective way to change its course, should an Earth-threatening asteroid be discovered in the future. DART’s target is the binary near-Earth asteroid Didymos and its moonlet, which pose no threat to Earth.
This mission is targeted to launch at 1:21 a.m. EST, Nov. 24 (06:21 UTC), aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
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Today's launch (Tuesday, Nov. 24) was a success and DART spacecraft has now separated from the Falcon 9 second stage and is flying on it's own, which happened live approx 45 minutes ago.
https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/dart/dart-news