Questions tagged [dart]
The Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) is a NASA space mission to testing a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects (NEOs). Launched from Earth in November 2021, the mission will deliberately crash a space probe into the minor-planet moon Dimorphos of the double asteroid Didymos to assess the future potential of a spacecraft impact to deflect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth through a transference of momentum. (from Wikipedia)
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Was the DART / Dimorphos impact a “Rear Ender”?
I’m trying to get a handle on the geometry of the DART asteroid collision mission. I’m aware that there are an infinite number of inertial frames of reference. The question of whether Dart hit ...
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How is this estimation so off?
Based on the recent NASA's DART mission, I wrote some code to calculate the satellite's distance and relative velocity based on the the size of Dismorphos (the target asteroid) on the camera frame. ...
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Whats left of the DART Spacecraft after impact?
DART impacted Dimorphos with around 6km/sec, which is really fast. I am wondering what is left of the spacecraft? What state is it now probably? Seeking the results of car crashes with 200+ kph when ...
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How would I calculate the resulting orbit of Dimorphos around Didymos A after the DART mission?
I have been trying to find a way to calculate how the DART mission affected Didymos A, independent of NASA's findings. I found one answer to this question, but it was as if they ignored Didymos A and ...
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Why were the images from DART encode in a way that cropped the last one the way it did?
The last image from DART only includes about the top ⅒ of the image, but that portion of the image is in full quality. That suggests that the image encoding/compression is mostly a raster encoding. ...
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Images of the DART impact on Asteroid Dimorphos other then DART images
I am looking for DART impact images from others source. Images which came from some telescopes etc. Where I can find it? Sorry for My English.
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What would have happened if DART failed to hit Didymoon?
So I remember reading that there was a 10% chance DART will not hit Didymoon. It was on the German Wikipedia, but without a source. Now, I'm wondering if there would have been any plans if DART failed ...
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Dimorphos natural orbit variability vs DART impact
As we know, DART spacecraft have impacted Dimorphos, a satellite of Didymos. The impact will change the orbital period. Depending on the properties of Dimorphos (mass, porosity, cohesion), the period ...
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Was DART meant to impact dead center?
According to eyes on the solar system, Dimorphos is tidally locked to Didymos. If DART impact direction is perfectly aligned with Dimorphos center of mass, all of the momentum transfers into orbital ...
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What caused the jitter in the DART video as it approached Dimorphos?
If you look at the series of images DART took as it approached Dimorphos, the asteroid jumps around a bit as you approach. Does this mean small corrections were being made right up till near the end? ...
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Can DART/Dimorphos impact be seen with naked eye?
Can today's DART/Dimorphos impact be seen with naked eye?
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Why aren't smaller fairings used for smaller payloads?
I saw this picture of the DART spacecraft being encapsulated in its payload fairing. Why doesn't SpaceX manufacture a smaller (shortened or thinned) fairing for the spacecraft? It reduces mass and is ...
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Offset of the DART roll out solar arrays [duplicate]
Looking at images of the DART space craft with the solar cells fully extended, the solar cells on each side of the craft are offset from one another, instead of being inline, as the picture below ...
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How many images of Didymos could be transmitted by Dart between the first full size image and the impact?
Dart is approaching Didymos B aka Dimorphus with a speed of 6.6 km/s. How many images could be taken and transmitted between Didymos B just filling the entire image and the last image just before ...
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How will DART be able to hit a 170 meter rock dead-center at over 6000 m/s? What technologies will be use and how will they work together?
The DART spacecraft will ultimately be a kinetic energy impactor, using its 500 kg mass at a relative velocity of over 6000 m/s to slightly change its target 65803 Didymos's companion Dimorphos's ...
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