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Dart: Mission to smack Dimorphos asteroid set for launch

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    This is part of the large international project AIDA: "Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment", with 5 spacecrafts over a period of 6 years: DART (projectile launched by NASA) will impact the...

    This is part of the large international project AIDA: "Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment", with 5 spacecrafts over a period of 6 years:

    • DART (projectile launched by NASA) will impact the moonlet Dimorphos in 2022
    • LICIACube, a cubesat from ASI (Italian space agency) is flying with DART and will observe the ejecta created by the impact
    • Hera + the cubesats Juventas and Milani (ESA, European Space Agency) will fully explore the Didymos system in 2026-2027 to measure the crater size and characterize the properties of both asteroids. Only then will we know the efficiency of this deflection technique.

    For more information:
    DART website
    Hera website

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