Was the DART mission successful?

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 .

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What is the DART project?

Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) DART is the first-ever mission dedicated to investigating and demonstrating one method of asteroid deflection by changing an asteroid’s motion in space through kinetic impact . Goals. Demonstrate asteroid deflection with a kinetic impactor. Launch.

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What is a Dart object?

Objects are basic building blocks of a Dart program . An object is a combination of data and methods. The data and the methods are called members of an object. Objects communicate together through methods. Each object can receive messages, send messages and process data.

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