DART

DART — spacecraft, explore its interactive 3D model in Cosmoscope.

Explore DART in a 3D Solar System. Follow its published mission trajectory and inspect its distance and spacecraft facts.

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test was the first planetary-defence trial: it rammed the small moonlet Dimorphos at about 22,500 km/h and shortened its orbit around Didymos by 33 minutes.

Launched
24 Nov 2021
Status
Mission ended 26 Sep 2022 — deliberately struck Dimorphos

Explore DART in 3D

Explore DART along its published mission trajectory in the 3D Solar System. The model uses the available ephemeris interval; historical missions are not active spacecraft and extrapolations beyond an ephemeris interval are approximate.

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