The DART team has 21 contingency plans it has rehearsed, said Elena Adams, DART mission systems engineer at the Applied Physics Lab. Why do we need to test this, and why on this asteroid?

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The DART mission, a full-scale demonstration of deflection technology, was the world’s first conducted on behalf of planetary defense.

The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, is set to intentionally collide with an asteroid on Monday. The goal is to test the technology that could be needed for planetary defense.

The DART team has 21 contingency plans it has rehearsed, said Elena Adams, DART mission systems engineer at the Applied Physics Lab. Why do we need to test this, and why on this asteroid?

Understanding the DART mission. Specs about DART spacecraft: DART without solar arrays: 6.2 feet in length × 5.9 feet in width × 8.5 feet in height; Solar arrays: Each is 27.9 feet long; ...

Asteroids colliding with Earth might seem farfetched, but the planetary threat is real. Just this year news broke of an ...

What We Learned From NASA’s DART Mission The spacecraft plowed into a space rock with the goal of demonstrating how an asteroid threatening Earth could be deflected. Published Sept. 26, 2022 ...

The impact of NASA's DART mission, which successfully altered a smaller asteroid’s orbit in space by a whopping 33 minutes, may lead to “the first human-made meteor shower”, the Dimorphids.

The DART mission came out of a 2015 collaboration between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) called the Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment (AIDA).

On Monday, a NASA spacecraft will deliberately slam into an asteroid called Dimorphos. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission, or DART, aims to see if this kind of kinetic impact can help ...