Day: February 5, 2024

DART: Double Asteroid Redirection Test  

Project Sponsor : NASA  Start Date : 11/24/2021 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Masatoshi “Toshi” Hirabayashi Project Status : Completed DART was NASA’s first planetary defense mission dedicated to demonstrating asteroid deflection by changing an asteroid’s motion through kinetic impact.   DART spacecraft successfully impacted Dimorphos, the secondary component of the near-Earth binary asteroid system (65803) […]