Status
Success
DART
Launch Time
Wed Nov 24, 2021 06:21 UTC
Wed Nov 24, 2021 06:21 UTC
Rocket
SpaceX
Status: Active
Price: $67.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 7,607 kN
Payload to LEO: 22,800 kg
Payload to GTO: 8,300 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 70.0 m
Fairing Diameter: 5.2 m
Fairing Height: 13.0 m
Vehicles
B1063
Flight #3
Of Course I Still Love You
181 day turnaround
106th Falcon recovery attempt
94th successful Falcon recovery attempt
21st consecutive successful Falcon recovery
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 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