NASA's Dart mission successfully tested

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Category : Science and Tech Published on: September 29 2022

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A NASA spacecraft has changed the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos heading towards Earth as part of the Dart mission.
The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, launched 10 months ago (24 November 2021).
Dimorphos is a small asteroid moonlet orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Didymos.
Mission control at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.
DART stands for Double Asteroid Redirection Test.
The $325 million DART mission was launched into orbit on November 24, 2021, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

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NASA's Dart mission successfully tested