Tag: LiciaCUBE
The kinetic impact of NASA’s DART spacecraft with the Dimorphos asteroid around its larger Didymos parent body has succeeded in shifting its orbit, meaning humankind’s first planetary defence test has been successful.
Original article from ESA
Observations are continuing of the...
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is set to make history next Monday as the world’s first planetary defense test, and the spacecraft’s own “mini-photographer” LICIACube (short for Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging Asteroids) is warming up to capture...
The ironic disaster movie, Don’t look up renewed the interest in a possible collision between an asteroid and the Earth. This film isn’t fiction at all, because many space agencies are studying in the last decades how we can...
CAES, a leader in advanced mission-critical electronics for aerospace and defense, has announced that its radiation-hardened microelectronics is onboard NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission.
The mission launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base on November 24. The goal of...
The deep space journey of the Italian Space Agency’s satellite has started. The satellite was developed and manufactured by Argotec, which will be tasked with acting as a photojournalist for the American probe DART, which will in about a...
On November 24, 2021, NASA’s mission to test the Earth’s defense technology against potential asteroid hazards was launched on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. We are pleased to announce that DART’s companion, the LICIACube satellite, is equipped with the...
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the world’s first full-scale mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards, launched Wednesday at 1:21 a.m. EST on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex...
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