DART spacecraft
DART was the Johns Hopkins APL spacecraft developed for NASA’s first full-scale planetary-defense test. The solar-powered probe combined autonomous optical navigation with a kinetic-impact mission, carrying the independent LICIACube observer during cruise before deliberately striking Dimorphos.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft
- Family Name
- DART
- Full Name
- DART spacecraft
- Roles
- interplanetary_probeimpactortechnology_demonstrator
- Status
- retired
- Type
- spacecraft
Details
- Description
- DART was the Johns Hopkins APL spacecraft developed for NASA’s first full-scale planetary-defense test. The solar-powered probe combined autonomous optical navigation with a kinetic-impact mission, carrying the independent LICIACube observer during cruise before deliberately striking Dimorphos.
- First Flight Year
- 2,021
- Last Flight Year
- 2,021
- Manufacturer
- Operator
- Spacecraft Specs
- Launch Mass Kg
- 610
- Reusability
- expendable
Links
- Official Url
- https://science.nasa.gov/planetary-defense-dart/
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- July 29, 2026 at 10:00:13 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 29, 2026 at 10:00:13 UTC