NASA’s DART Mission: Cosmic Billiard As A Way To Nudge Asteroid Off Course
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The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), which will help determine if intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid is an effective way to change its course, is scheduled to launch no earlier than 1:21 a.m. EST Wednesday, Nov. 24 (10:21 p.m. PST Tuesday, Nov. 23) on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
This illustration is of the DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency’s (ASI) LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos binary system.
DART is the agency’s first planetary defense test mission and the target asteroid is not a threat to Earth.(Attribution: NASA/Johns Hopkins, APL/Steve Gribben, PD, Presented at: WindermereSun.com)
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SpaceX is targeting Tuesday, November 23 for Falcon 9’s launch of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The instantaneous launch window is at 10:21 p.m. PST (6:21 UTC on November 24), and a backup opportunity is available on Wednesday, November 24 at 10:20 p.m. PST (6:20 UTC on November 25). This will be the third flight for this Falcon 9’s first stage booster, which previously supported launch of Sentinel-6A and a Starlink mission. Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage will land on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship, which will be located in the Pacific Ocean. DART is humanity’s first planetary defense test mission 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, in the video streamed on Nov 24, 2021, “Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission“, below:
This is the first time SpaceX has taken a NASA spacecraft, launching DART Mission in its first Asteroid Deflection Test. As part of the Planetary Defense System, NASA is launching a spacecraft directly at an asteroid to see if it can be pushed off course, according to Julianna Scheiman, Director of NASA Satellite Missions, in the video published on Nov 23, 2021, “What would happen if an asteroid headed towards Earth?|ABC News“, below:
NASA is carrying out a test mission that could one day stop an asteroid destroying the planet. The DART – Double Asteroid Redirection Test – was launched a few hours ago on Wednesday, November 24, 2021and will eventually collide with a “moonlet” millions of kilometres away. The goal is to slightly alter the trajectory of the Dimorphos moonlet – about 160 metres (525 feet) wide – that circles the much larger Didymos asteroid – 762 metres (2,500 feet) in diameter, in the video published on Nov 24, 2021, “NASA launches ‘suicide’ spacecraft to kick asteroid off course“, below:
A NASA mission to deliberately smash a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if its course can be altered blasted off Tuesday from California. The SpaceX rocket carrying the experiment lifted off at 10:21 pm Pacific Time (0621 GMT Wednesday) from Vandenberg Space Force Base, NASA TV’s live stream showed, in the video published on Nov 24, 2021, “NASA spacecraft to crash into Asteroid, mission might save planet Earth | World News“, below:
NASA’s DART Mission spacecraft blasted off on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket in a test mission to demonstrate the world’s first planetary defense system, designed to deflect an asteroid from a potential collision with Earth, in the video published on Nov 24, 2021, “NASA launches test for asteroid-deflecting spacecraft“, below:
ABC News’ Linsey Davis speaks with Dr. Lori Glaze, a NASA planetary science director, about a new mission called DART that will test knocking asteroids off course, in the video published on Nov 24, 2021, “NASA tests mission to knock asteroids off course“, below:
In the video published on Nov 24, 2021, “How can a rocket smashing asteroid mission save Earth?|ABC News“, below:
A SpaceX rocket blasted off from California late on Tuesday as Nasa seeks to demonstrate a first-of-its-kind planetary defence system, designed to deflect an asteroid from a potential doomsday collision with Earth, in the video published on Nov 24, 2021, “Nasa launches mission to avert future doomsday asteroid collision“, below:
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