Asteroid
NASA DART
NASA DART is catalogued by GCAT as a deep-space mission in the PDC program.
Completed or retired · Historical mission record
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The mission
NASA DART is catalogued by GCAT as a deep-space mission in the PDC program. This reconstructed record groups 2 GCAT payload or flight elements under launch 2021-110; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
Launch profile
The launch
- Launch
- 24 November 2021, 06:21:02 UTC
- Launch location
- South Base, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
- Launch vehicle
- Falcon 9
- Orbit
- Earth-escape trajectory
Trajectory
Mission timeline
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Mission ended — Completed or retired
Operations concluded · 26 September 2022
Historical mission record
GCAT records the primary mission element as completed or no longer operational.
Hardware
Spacecraft
NASA DART
GCAT program: PDC.
- GCAT ID
- S49497
- Manufacturer
- JHU-Applied Physics Lab
- Launch mass
- 610 kg
- Propulsion
- NEXT-C
- Dimensions
- 1.2 m long · 1.3 m diameter · 19 m span
LICIACube
GCAT program: ASI Deep.
- GCAT ID
- A10780
- Manufacturer
- ArgoTec srl
- Launch mass
- 13 kg
- Propulsion
- AOCS
- Dimensions
- 0.3 m long · 0.2 m diameter · 0.3 m span
Visual archive
Gallery
5 images from NASA DART.
Verification
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