Launch Date: November 24
Launch Window: 10:21pm PST (1:21am EST on the 24th, 06:21 UTC also on the 24th)
Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
Core Booster Recovery: ASDS (OCISLY)
Booster: B1063.3
Fairings: New
Mass: 684 kg (1,511 lbs)
Orbit: Heliocentric - Powered by 6.6 kW NEXT ion thruster
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, mission. DART is NASA’s first flight demonstration for planetary defense. The mission seeks to test and validate a method to protect Earth in case of an asteroid impact threat. The mission aims to shift an asteroid’s orbit through kinetic impact — specifically, by impacting a spacecraft into the smaller member of the binary asteroid system Didymos to change its orbital speed.
Launch Window: 10:21pm PST (1:21am EST on the 24th, 06:21 UTC also on the 24th)
Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
Core Booster Recovery: ASDS (OCISLY)
Booster: B1063.3
Fairings: New
Mass: 684 kg (1,511 lbs)
Orbit: Heliocentric - Powered by 6.6 kW NEXT ion thruster
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, mission. DART is NASA’s first flight demonstration for planetary defense. The mission seeks to test and validate a method to protect Earth in case of an asteroid impact threat. The mission aims to shift an asteroid’s orbit through kinetic impact — specifically, by impacting a spacecraft into the smaller member of the binary asteroid system Didymos to change its orbital speed.
Planetary Defense - DART - NASA Science
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), built and managed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) for NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO), was the world’s first planetary defense technology demonstration that validated one technique of asteroid deflection...
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