Nasa prepares to crash spacecraft into asteroid in ‘planetary defense test’ – live
Space agency conducts Dart mission to learn whether asteroid’s trajectory can be diverted away from Earth
We’re (hopefully) going to be able to watch the Dart spacecraft’s collision with Dimorphos live, or at least on a few minutes’ delay, thanks to what Nasa calls the mission’s own “mini-photographer”, the LICIACube (short for Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging Asteroids).
The satellite craft will fly past Dimorphos about three minutes after Dart crashes, Nasa says, aiming “to confirm the spacecraft impact, observe the evolution of the ejected plume, potentially capture images of the newly formed impact crater, and image the opposite hemisphere of Dimorphos that Dart will never see”.
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