DART spacecraft

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The DART spacecraft was a NASA mission designed to test planetary defense by intentionally colliding with an asteroid to alter its trajectory.

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Double Asteroid Redirection Test 2
DART 1
DART planetary defense mission 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf NASA mission
planetary defense mission
spacecraft
acronym DART
linked to: DART spacecraft
belongsTo NASA Discovery-class technology demonstration missions
carriedCubeSat LICIACube
carriedInstrument DRACO camera
communicationBand X-band
cubeSatPartner Italian Space Agency
demonstratedTechnique kinetic impact deflection
developmentLead Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
followUpMissionAgency European Space Agency
fullName Double Asteroid Redirection Test
linked to: DART spacecraft
fundingAgency NASA
impactBody Dimorphos
impactDate 2022-09-26
impactOutcome successfully altered Dimorphos's orbital period
impactVelocity approximately 6.1 kilometers per second
instrumentFullName Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical navigation
isFirstOfType first mission to deliberately alter the motion of a celestial body
launchDate 2021-11-24
launchProvider SpaceX
launchSite Space Launch Complex 4E
Vandenberg Space Force Base
launchVehicle Falcon 9 Block 5
linked to: Falcon 9 rocket
managingCenter Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
missionDurationFromLaunchToImpact approximately 10 months
missionEnd 2022-09-26
missionStatus completed
missionType asteroid deflection demonstration
kinetic impactor test
navigation autonomous optical navigation
navigationSystem SMART Nav
operator NASA
NASA Planetary Defense Coordination Office
orbitalPeriodChange reduced Dimorphos's orbital period by about 32 minutes
powerSource solar panels
primaryObjective demonstrate kinetic impactor technique for asteroid deflection
test planetary defense by altering an asteroid's trajectory
program NASA Planetary Defense program
propulsion NEXT-C ion thruster
propulsionType solar electric propulsion
relatedMission Hera spacecraft
spacecraftMassAtImpact approximately 570 kilograms
target Dimorphos
targetPrimary 65803 Didymos
targetSystem Didymos–Dimorphos binary asteroid system
linked to: Dimorphos
trajectoryType heliocentric transfer to near-Earth asteroid

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NASA spacecraft includes DART spacecraft
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory notableProject DART planetary defense mission
linked to: DART spacecraft
DART spacecraft fullName Double Asteroid Redirection Test
linked to: DART spacecraft
DART spacecraft acronym DART
linked to: DART spacecraft
NASA Planetary Defense Coordination Office notableWork Double Asteroid Redirection Test
linked to: DART spacecraft