NASA’s Asteroid-Striking DART Mission Team Has JPL Members
September 23, 2022
It’s a bold and complex undertaking to try impacting an asteroid. JPL is there to assist with navigators, communications, and more.
On Monday, Sept. 26, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission has the challenging goal of crashing its spacecraft into Dimorphos, a small moonlet orbiting a larger asteroid by the name of Didymos. While the asteroid poses no threat to Earth, this…
