Launch Thread - SpaceX Falcon 9: DART
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KINETIC IMPACT edition
Launch Time: November 23 00:21 PM PST / 6:21 UTC November 24 (instantaneous)
Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKRf6-NcMqI
Weather Forecast: 10% no-go (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1462940748177883141)
Launch Site: Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E), Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
Landing Site: Droneship “Of Course I Still Love You”
Booster: B1063.3 (Prior missions: Sentinel 6A, Starlink-L28)
Fairings: New
Payload: DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test); 610 kilogram mass
Deployment Orbit: Heliocentric
>https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/dart
>https://dart.jhuapl.edu
https://www.spacex.com/launches/
>NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, is the world’s first full-scale planetary defense test, demonstrating one method of asteroid deflection technology. True to its name, DART is a focused mission, proving that a spacecraft can autonomously navigate to a target asteroid and intentionally collide with it (called a kinetic impact) at roughly 4 miles per second (6 kilometers per second). Its target, which poses no threat to Earth, is the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos (Greek for “two forms”), which orbits a larger asteroid named Didymos (Greek for “twin”).
>As part of NASA’s larger planetary defense strategy, DART will simultaneously test new technologies and provide important data to enhance our modeling and predictive capabilities and help us better prepare for an asteroid that might pose a threat to Earth, should one be discovered.
Stats: 26th orbital SpaceX launch of 2021, 70th re-flown 1st stage F9 booster, 88th F9 booster landing, 128th Falcon 9 flight. First proper non-Earth-system SpaceX mission.
Launch Time: November 23 00:21 PM PST / 6:21 UTC November 24 (instantaneous)
Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKRf6-NcMqI
Weather Forecast: 10% no-go (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1462940748177883141)
Launch Site: Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E), Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
Landing Site: Droneship “Of Course I Still Love You”
Booster: B1063.3 (Prior missions: Sentinel 6A, Starlink-L28)
Fairings: New
Payload: DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test); 610 kilogram mass
Deployment Orbit: Heliocentric
>https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/dart
>https://dart.jhuapl.edu
https://www.spacex.com/launches/
>NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, is the world’s first full-scale planetary defense test, demonstrating one method of asteroid deflection technology. True to its name, DART is a focused mission, proving that a spacecraft can autonomously navigate to a target asteroid and intentionally collide with it (called a kinetic impact) at roughly 4 miles per second (6 kilometers per second). Its target, which poses no threat to Earth, is the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos (Greek for “two forms”), which orbits a larger asteroid named Didymos (Greek for “twin”).
>As part of NASA’s larger planetary defense strategy, DART will simultaneously test new technologies and provide important data to enhance our modeling and predictive capabilities and help us better prepare for an asteroid that might pose a threat to Earth, should one be discovered.
Stats: 26th orbital SpaceX launch of 2021, 70th re-flown 1st stage F9 booster, 88th F9 booster landing, 128th Falcon 9 flight. First proper non-Earth-system SpaceX mission.
