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.
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Identity
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- DARTDouble Asteroid Redirection TestFalcon 9 F130Falcon 9 Flight 130
- Name
- Falcon 9 Block 5 Flight 130 | DART
- Status
- completed
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- 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.
- Destination
- Didymos binary asteroid system and its moonlet Dimorphos for the first full-scale kinetic-impact asteroid-deflection demonstration
- 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
- Programs
- Start Date
- 2021-11-24
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Links
- Official Url
- https://science.nasa.gov/mission/dart/
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- July 19, 2026 at 16:02:39 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 22, 2026 at 03:18:25 UTC
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