January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... NEOs pose a potential impact hazard, new missions are being devised that test a variety of mitigation strategies. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) mission is designed to impact a NEO at high velocity, producing a change in its orbit and...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
... arrive approximately four months after AIM. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) probe will home in on the smaller asteroid moon – then crash straight into it at about 6km/s. DART, designed by the Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics...
04 February 2022
NASA’s real-life “Don’t Look Up” programme
...Planetary Defense efforts are on the rise. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) - the world’s first full-scale mission to test a technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid impacts - launched last November will deflect a known...
May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
... won’t escape JWST’s watchful gaze. JWST will support the upcoming NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), which will slam a probe into one of a binary asteroid pair, hoping to change its orbit just a little - practice for punching something...
