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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-dart-spacecraft-successfully-smacks-a-space-rock-now-what1/
NASA's DART Spacecraft Successfully Smacks a Space Rock--Now What? | Scientific American
Feb 20, 2024 - The DART spacecraft has purposefully crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, hopefully changing its orbit by a few minutes, in a milestone test of future...
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https://www.space.com/space-exploration/asteroid-comet-missions/nasas-asteroid-smashing-spacecraft-managed-to-alter-target-space-rocks-orbit-around-the-sun
NASA's asteroid-smashing DART spacecraft hit so hard, it changed its target space rocks' orbit...
Mar 10, 2026 - NASA's DART planetary defense mission appears to have altered its target asteroids' trajectory around the sun.
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https://www.zmescience.com/space/astrophysics-space/dart-spacecraft-orbital-data-asteroid/
How a Tiny Nudge From NASA's DART Spacecraft Showed We Can Actually Save Earth From a Killer...
Mar 11, 2026 - NASA’s DART mission delivered humanity’s first measurable push to a celestial orbit.
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https://www.jhuapl.edu/news/news-releases/211124-nasa-johns-hopkins-apl-launch-first-planetary-defense-test-mission-to-double-asteroid-system
NASA’s DART Spacecraft Launches in World’s First Planetary Defense Test Mission | Johns Hopkins...
Apr 11, 2024 - After a decade in the making, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, which Johns Hopkins APL built and is managing, launched from the...
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https://www.sciencenews.org/article/spacecraft-changed-asteroid-orbit-nasa
NASA’s DART spacecraft changed an asteroid’s orbit around the sun
Mar 6, 2026 - A 2022 NASA mission changed the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos around its companion. New data shows their joint orbit around the sun also changed.
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https://www.space.com/nasa-dart-mission-launch-asteroid-planetary-defense
NASA launches DART mission to destroy a spacecraft to (potentially) save planet Earth | Space
Nov 24, 2021 - NASA has launched its DART mission to practice what the agency might do if planet Earth were threatened by a wayward asteroid.
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