Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)
DART DART is a planetary defense-driven test of technologies that will be preventing an impact on the earth by a Hazardous asteroid. DART stands for Double Asteroid Redirection Test. This DART is launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on 24th November in the California Vandenburg space force base. Its goal is to slightly change the motion of the potential asteroid. Two different views of the DART spacecraft. The DRACO (Didymos Reconnaissance & Asteroid Camera for OpNav) imaging instrument is based on the LORRI high-resolution imager from New Horizons. The left view also shows the Radial Line Slot Array (RLSA) antenna with the ROSAs (Roll-Out Solar Arrays) rolled up. The view on the right shows a clearer view of the NEXT-C ion engine. https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/dart. It is the first planetary defense test. NASA is trying something which has not been done before with a spacecraft by anyone. The DART will be impacting the Hazardous asteroid at a speed ...