NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test Livestream: After months of waiting, the NASA DART mission spacecraft is ready for its crash landing. What is more, you can watch NASA DART mission live updates now. In fact, in just one hour, the world will witness a historic moment as NASA sends its spacecraft to collide with Asteroid Dimorphous to test the planetary defense mechanism against an incoming space rock. The mission is testing the kinetic impactor method, where a collision will push away an asteroid from its current trajectory using a high speed spacecraft and forcing it to crash on the asteroid at 14000 mph. NASA is aiming to use the data collected from the mission to prepare simulation models to know the speed, duration, mass of impact and other measures to prepare a comprehensive defense mechanism. The Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope will also be monitoring the impact.
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European Space Agency's Hera mission will conduct an in-depth analysis of the DART collision and its long term consequences in 2026.
Impact success!
This is the first time humanity has moved a celestial object
NASA official highlights the monumental milestone achieved by the DART mission.
DART is just the first planetary defense mission
NASA official says that the real work begins now.
SmartNav has stopped maneuvering the spacecraft
The DART spacecraft is now coasting towards the target and will crash at any moment now.
Just 5 minutes for the NASA DART impact
The impact will take in just 5 minutes. The first images will be be visible a couple minutes after the impact due to data transfer time and image processing.
Dimorphos is not a Threat to Earth
NASA has once again clarified that the Dimorphos asteroid is not a threat to Earth at this moment or it will be after the impact. It is merely a target chosen to see the capabilities as well as to collect data from a mission like this.
DART precision locks are set on the Dimorphos asteroid
“Only 20 minutes until impact, #DARTMission’s smart navigation is now precision-locked on non-hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, as the space craft travels at 6 kilometers per second," tweets NASA.
LICIACube, a cubesat, to take images of the impact
DART has locked onto the target successfully
According to NASA, DART system has detected and locked onto the Dimorphos asteroid using its SmartNav algorithm.
James Webb Space Telescope is also observing the DART crash
Watch the NASA DART livestream here