NASA DART Mission Live: Spacecraft COLLIDES with Asteroid Dimorphos at 14000 mph
ESA to conduct an in-depth analysis of the collision
European Space Agency's Hera mission will conduct an in-depth analysis of the DART collision and its long term consequences in 2026.
Impact success!
IMPACT SUCCESS! Watch from #DARTMIssion’s DRACO Camera, as the vending machine-sized spacecraft successfully collides with asteroid Dimorphos, which is the size of a football stadium and poses no threat to Earth. pic.twitter.com/7bXipPkjWD
This is the first time humanity has moved a celestial object
NASA official highlights the monumental milestone achieved by the DART mission.
DART is just the first planetary defense mission
NASA official says that the real work begins now.
Celebrations go around as the impact takes place
The DART team celebrates as the DART spacecraft crashes into the Dimorphos asteroid.
SmartNav has stopped maneuvering the spacecraft
The DART spacecraft is now coasting towards the target and will crash at any moment now.
Just 5 minutes for the NASA DART impact
The impact will take in just 5 minutes. The first images will be be visible a couple minutes after the impact due to data transfer time and image processing.
Dimorphos is not a Threat to Earth
NASA has once again clarified that the Dimorphos asteroid is not a threat to Earth at this moment or it will be after the impact. It is merely a target chosen to see the capabilities as well as to collect data from a mission like this.
DART precision locks are set on the Dimorphos asteroid
“Only 20 minutes until impact, #DARTMission's smart navigation is now precision-locked on non-hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, as the space craft travels at 6 kilometers per second," tweets NASA.
LICIACube, a cubesat, to take images of the impact
Planetary defense takes planetary participation.
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