NASA’s DART Spacecraft A ‘Go’ For Asteroid Impact Demo

DART asteroid-striking team
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben
HOUSTON—NASA reports all systems with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission spacecraft are “go” for its planned Sept. 26 collision with a small asteroid named Dimorphos. This will be a space first, intended to demonstrate the effectiveness of a “Kinetic Impact” strategy for fending off...

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