DART Program
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test was the world’s first planetary-defense technology demonstration, intentionally impacting the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos to validate kinetic impact as an asteroid-deflection technique. The spacecraft launched on 24 November 2021 and impacted Dimorphos on 27 September 2022, changing its orbital period around Didymos.
Identity
- Aliases
- DARTDouble Asteroid Redirection TestDouble Asteroid Redirection Test MissionNASA DART
- Domains
- spaceflight
- Name
- DART Program
- Status
- completed
- Types
- researchdevelopmentoperations
Details
- Description
- NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test was the world’s first planetary-defense technology demonstration, intentionally impacting the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos to validate kinetic impact as an asteroid-deflection technique. The spacecraft launched on 24 November 2021 and impacted Dimorphos on 27 September 2022, changing its orbital period around Didymos.
- End Date
- 2022-09-27
- Leads
- Participants
- Start Date
- 2021-11-24
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- August 13, 2026 at 19:25:00 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 13, 2026 at 19:25:00 UTC