Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is a NASA space mission designed to test a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects such as asteroids. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the DART spacecraft was launched. The probe is to hit the asteroid and bring it out of its course.
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Deployment confirmed, @NASA’s DART is on its way to redirect an asteroid pic.twitter.com/UTxkcJFcq0
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 24, 2021
Second stage engine restart and escape burn complete
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 24, 2021
Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship, completing SpaceX's 95th successful recovery of an orbital class rocket booster pic.twitter.com/tEn34tlVqE
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 24, 2021
Second stage engine cutoff confirmed, now in coast phase of flight
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 24, 2021
First stage entry burn complete; second stage continuing nominally
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 24, 2021
Main engine cutoff and stage separation confirmed. Second stage engine burn underway
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 24, 2021
Watch Falcon 9 launch @NASA’s DART mission – humanity’s first planetary defense test to redirect an asteroid https://t.co/bJFjLCzWdK https://t.co/XMKYOGAjbB
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 24, 2021
All systems and weather are looking good for tonight’s Falcon 9 launch of @NASA’s DART into an asteroid-intercepting interplanetary trajectory → https://t.co/bJFjLCzWdK pic.twitter.com/BBrMndhpkQ
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 23, 2021
🚀 @NASA & @SpaceX are completing key milestones for the #DARTmission!
— NASA's Launch Services Program (@NASA_LSP) November 22, 2021
Last week, the DART spacecraft was encapsulated inside the payload fairings that will protect it during launch atop a #Falcon9 and teams completed a successful Flight Readiness Review: https://t.co/16FohmMvUw pic.twitter.com/XYW93mQOTj
NASA will intentionally crash the DART spacecraft into an asteroid to see if that is an effective way to change its course, should an Earth-threatening asteroid be discovered in the future
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 19, 2021