Tuesday, December 20, 2022

NASA's DART Mission: Asteroid Impact Success | JHU Applied Physics Laboratory

NASA's DART Mission: Asteroid Impact Success | JHU Applied Physics Laboratory

On Sept. 26, 2022, after ten months of journeying through space, NASA's experimental Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft—roughly the size of a vending machine—hurtled toward a binary asteroid some 7 million miles (11 million kilometers) from Earth at a speed of roughly 14,000 miles (22,530 kilometers) per hour. Equipped with a state-of-the-art imaging system that worked in tandem with a sophisticated onboard set of targeting, guidance, navigation and control algorithms, DART autonomously identified and distinguished between the two asteroids in its final moments, targeted the smaller body (which could not be seen from Earth) and crashed into it.

The intentional impact marked the world’s first planetary defense technology demonstration and humanity’s first successful attempt to move a celestial object.

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory manages the DART mission for NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office as a project of the agency’s Planetary Missions Program Office. 

For more information about DART, visit:

https://dart.jhuapl.edu/

https://www.nasa.gov/dartmission


Credit: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)

Duration: 2 minutes

Release Date: Dec. 19, 2022


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