Status
Success
Rocket
Vehicles
Mission Details
DART
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is the first-ever mission to demonstrate the capability to deflect an asteroid by colliding a spacecraft with it at high speed – a technique known as a kinetic impactor.
The satellite will also carry LICIACube, a CubeSat that will be released shortly before the impact to provide data and imagery to verify the effects of DART's impact on the binary asteroids.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 610.0 kg
Heliocentric Orbit
Location
SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA
Stats
2021
117th orbital launch attempt
SpaceX
138th mission
26th mission of 2021
132nd successful mission
104th consecutive successful mission
Falcon 9
130th mission
26th mission of 2021
127th successful mission
101st consecutive successful mission