At 1:21 a.m. EST on November 24, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission was launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. In the ensuing few hours, the spacecraft established communication with mission operators and successfully unfurled its solar arrays .
Read moreHow much does DART cost NASA?
Here are some specifics about the DART spacecraft: Cost: $308 million . Weight: 1,345 pounds (610 kilograms) at launch / 1,210 (550 kg) pounds at impact.
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Read moreDid NASA’s DART work?
In August 2018, NASA approved the project to start the final design and assembly phase. The DART spacecraft was successfully launched on 24 November 2021, with collision slated for 26 September 2022 to 2 October 2022 .
Read moreHow fast will DART hit the asteroid?
The DART spacecraft is on a kamikaze mission to Didymos (NASA calls it a kinetic impactor mission). It’ll deliberately crash itself into the moonlet at a speed of approximately 4.1 miles/second (6.6 km/s) .
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While C++ is an object-oriented programming language with generic features, Dart is an object-oriented, web-based programming language . Therefore, it can be easily compiled to JavaScript for browser applications.
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