DART Investigation & Engineering Briefing

Simone Pirrotta, Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids (LICIACube) project manager for the Italian Space Agency, participates in an engineering briefing for NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Nov. 21, 2021. DART is the first mission to test technologies for preventing an impact of Earth by a hazardous asteroid. The mission is scheduled to launch no earlier than 1:21 a.m. EST Wednesday, Nov. 24 (10:21 p.m. PST Tuesday, Nov. 23), aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg. NASA's Launch Services Program based at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, America's multi-user spaceport, is managing the launch.

Simone Pirrotta, Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids (LICIACube) project manager for the Italian Space Agency, participates in an engineering briefing for NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Nov. 21, 2021. DART is the first mission to test technologies for preventing an impact of Earth by a hazardous asteroid. The mission is scheduled to launch no earlier than 1:21 a.m. EST Wednesday, Nov. 24 (10:21 p.m. PST Tuesday, Nov. 23), aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg. NASA's Launch Services Program based at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, America's multi-user spaceport, is managing the launch.

Photographer NASA/Kim Shiflett
Album DART_Launch
APLASIAdministrationAndy RivkinApplied Physics LaboratoryBetsy CongdonDARTDouble Asteroid Redirection TestItalian Space AgencyJohns HopkinsKSCKennedy Space CenterLSPLaunch ServicesLori GlazeNASANational Aeronautics and SpacePlanetary Science DivisionProgramSimone PirrottaSpace Launch Delta 30SpaceXTom StatlerVSFBVandenberg Space Force Base