LICIACube spacecraft
LICIACube was a six-unit Italian deep-space CubeSat developed for the DART mission. The Argotec-built spacecraft traveled attached to DART, separated before arrival, then navigated independently past Dimorphos to image the kinetic impact and its ejecta.
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Identity
- Aliases
- LICIACubeLight Italian CubeSat for Imaging of AsteroidsDART LICIACubeArgotec LICIACube
- Family Name
- LICIACube
- Full Name
- LICIACube spacecraft
- Roles
- interplanetary_probeflybyresearch
- Status
- retired
- Type
- spacecraft
Details
- Description
- LICIACube was a six-unit Italian deep-space CubeSat developed for the DART mission. The Argotec-built spacecraft traveled attached to DART, separated before arrival, then navigated independently past Dimorphos to image the kinetic impact and its ejecta.
- First Flight Year
- 2,021
- Last Flight Year
- 2,022
- Manufacturer
- Operator
- Spacecraft Specs
- Launch Mass Kg
- 13
- Reusability
- expendable
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- Creation Time
- July 29, 2026 at 10:01:11 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 14, 2026 at 00:48:12 UTC