Falcon 9 Block 5 Flight 130 | DART
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test was the first full-scale demonstration of asteroid deflection by kinetic impact. After Falcon 9 sent DART onto an interplanetary trajectory, the spacecraft autonomously struck Dimorphos on September 26, 2022, measurably changing the moonlet's orbit around Didymos.
Follow this mission
Alerts are unavailable because this mission is no longer active.
Identity
- Aliases
- DARTDouble Asteroid Redirection TestFalcon 9 F130Falcon 9 Flight 130
- Name
- Falcon 9 Block 5 Flight 130 | DART
- Status
- completed
Details
- Astronauts
- -
- Description
- NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test was the first full-scale demonstration of asteroid deflection by kinetic impact. After Falcon 9 sent DART onto an interplanetary trajectory, the spacecraft autonomously struck Dimorphos on September 26, 2022, measurably changing the moonlet's orbit around Didymos.
- End Date
- 2022-09-26
- Launch Site
- Outcome
- Successfully departed Earth, navigated to the Didymos system, and impacted Dimorphos in the first full-scale asteroid-deflection test
- Program
- NASA Planetary Defense
- Start Date
- 2021-11-24
- Vehicle Families
Links
- Official Url
- https://science.nasa.gov/mission/dart/
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- July 19, 2026 at 16:02:39 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 19, 2026 at 16:02:39 UTC
Other
- Affiliations
- Space Stations
- -
- Vehicles