Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is a NASA space mission aimed at testing a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects (NEO).

It will deliberately crash a space probe into the double asteroid Didymos to test whether the kinetic effect of a spacecraft impact could successfully deflect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. DART is a joint project between NASA and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), administered by NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office, with several NASA laboratories and offices providing technical support. International partners, such as the space agencies of Europe, Italy, and Japan, are contributing to related or subsequent projects. In August 2018, NASA approved the project to start the final design and assembly phase. The launch is planned for on 24 November 2021, at 06:20 UTC, with collision slated for September 26, 2022, 23:14 (UTC).

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Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission

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New Post-DART Collision Period for the Didymos System: Evidence for Anomalous Orbital Decay