NASA to Provide Update on DART, World’s First Planetary Defense Test

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — NASA will host a media briefing at 2 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Oct. 11, to focus on the company’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission and its intentional collision with its goal asteroid, Dimorphos.

The briefing will air on NASA TV, the NASA app, and the company’s website.

Participants embody leaders from NASA, the Italian Space Agency, and the DART mission workforce.

To attend the briefing in particular person, or to take part remotely and ask questions, media should RSVP no later than two hours earlier than the beginning of the briefing to Josh Handal at: [email protected]. NASA’s media accreditation policy is obtainable on-line.

The media briefing will happen within the Webb Auditorium of NASA Headquarters Mary W. Jackson constructing, 300 E. Street, SW in Washington.

On Monday, Sept. 26, DART efficiently impacted its asteroid goal on the planet’s first planetary protection expertise demonstration. As part of NASA’s general planetary protection technique, DART’s affect with the asteroid Dimorphos will assist to decide whether or not asteroid deflection utilizing a kinetic impactor spacecraft is a viable mitigation method for shielding the planet from an Earth-bound asteroid or comet, if one had been found. The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory manages the DART mission for NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office as a mission of the company’s Planetary Missions Program Office. Neither DART’s goal asteroid, Dimorphos, nor its bigger asteroid mother or father, Didymos, poses a hazard to Earth.

For extra details about the DART mission, go to:

https://www.nasa.gov/dart

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