The target of this asteroid deflection technology is Dimorphos, a small moon orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Didymos. ![]() PT on November 23 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.Īfter launching in November, NASA will test its asteroid deflection technology in September 2022 to see how it impacts the motion of a near-Earth asteroid in space. The DART mission, or NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, will lift off at 10:20 p.m. ![]() ![]() A spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid is preparing to launch.
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