Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission.

Sandhi Yudha

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DART is a planetary defense-driven test of technologies for preventing an impact of Earth by a hazardous asteroid. DART will be the first demonstration of the kinetic impactor technique to change the motion of an asteroid in space.

DART’s target is actually a twin asteroid/planetoïde: Didymos (780 m in diameter) and Dimorphos (160 m in diameter) , and DART will impact on the smaller one. Both are NOT a threat to Earth.

The launch of the 70-meter tall Falcon 9 rocket is poised for takeoff from Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, today at 10:21:02 p.m. PST on Nov. 23 (1:21:02 a.m. EST; 0621:02 GMT on Nov. 24).





 
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Sandhi Yudha

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The American space agency's DART Aspace probe has successfully smashed into an asteroid, destroying itself in the process. DART is the first-ever mission dedicated to investigating and demonstrating one method of asteroid deflection by changing an asteroid’s motion in space through kinetic impact.

DART's camera returned an image per second, right up to the moment of impact with the target - a 160m-wide object called Dimorphos.


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The DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) seems to be successful, NASA confirms it had shortened Dimorphos' orbital period by about 32 minutes, surpassing the success threshold of 73 seconds.

 
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