The DART spacecraft launch window begins November 24, 2021.
DART will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
After separation from the launch vehicle and over a year of cruise it will intercept Didymos’ moonlet in late September 2022, when the Didymos system is within 11 million kilometers of Earth, enabling observations by ground-based telescopes and planetary radar to measure the change in momentum imparted to the moonlet.
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[ 7.2 ms ] story [ 13.8 ms ] threadDART will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
After separation from the launch vehicle and over a year of cruise it will intercept Didymos’ moonlet in late September 2022, when the Didymos system is within 11 million kilometers of Earth, enabling observations by ground-based telescopes and planetary radar to measure the change in momentum imparted to the moonlet.