NASA Continues DART Planetary Defense Mission Assessment

Tony Osborne March 20, 2024

Asteroid Didymos (bottom left) and its moonlet, Dimorphos.

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
A new study of the aftermath of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission shows the Sept. 26, 2022, impact altered the shape and course of its target, the 560-ft.-wide (170-m) Dimorphos, a moonlet orbiting the larger asteroid Didymos. DART was launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base...
Tony Osborne

Based in London, Tony covers European defense programs. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2012, Tony was at Shephard Media Group where he was deputy editor for Rotorhub and Defence Helicopter magazines.

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