24 November 2021
NASA successfully launches its DART mission
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft has launched from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Launch time was 10:21 pm ...
29 June 2018
All things asteroid: Who, What, Where and When
.... Named for the Greek goddess of marriage, Hera will work in tandem with a NASA mission called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) project. DART’s primary objective is to demonstrate the effect a kinetic impact would have on a small...
30 June 2019
Asteroid day 2019
... that both NASA and ESA have initiated with their Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) and HERA missions respectively. Just this week, astronomers discovered a car-size asteroid hours before it collided with Earth and burned up in the atmosphere...
29 November 2019
Hera mission is approved as ESA receives biggest ever budget
...kinetic impact on the smaller of the two bodies, a 160 metre moon informally called ‘Didymoon’, as part of its Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) mission. The impact is expected to perturb Didymoon’s orbit around the main body and when that happens...
22 November 2021
NASA's asteroid impact mission due to launch Wednesday
... off on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California at 1:20 am ET (06:20 GMT) on 24 November, DART, which stands for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, will head on a 10 month journey to Dimorphos, a small moonlet...
11 October 2021
Disrupting Earth-bound asteroids with nukes is “very effective”, new study says
...-known and will be the focus of real targets when NASA’s DART mission reaches its target – a binary asteroid system comprised of Didymos and its small moonlet asteroid Dimorphos – in late 2022. However, this method needs time to be implemented...
