Descrizione : NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission will be the first space experiment to demonstrate asteroid deflection by a kinetic impactor. DART will impact the secondary member of the Didymos binary asteroid system in late September, 2022 in order to demonstrate the ability to modify the trajectory of the moon through momentum transfer.

DART is part of the Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment (AIDA) international cooperation along with the ESA Hera mission study. DART is the first hypervelocity impact experiment on an asteroid at a realistic scale relevant to planetary de- fense, where the impact conditions and the projectile properties are fully known. DART will provide valida- tion of the kinetic impactor technique and improve mod- els of kinetic impactor effects to enable applicability to different targets.

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