A rendering of the DART spacecraft and the asteroid binary system it is targeting. Photo: NASA / JOHNS HOPKINS APL
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or 'Dart', spacecraft onboard at the Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, on November 24, 2021. Photo: Nasa / AFP.
'Dart' is on a mission to test technologies for preventing an impact on Earth by a hazardous asteroid. Photo: EPA / Nasa
The spacecraft will smash into an asteroid and test whether it would be possible to knock a speeding space rock off course if one were to threaten Earth. Photo: Nasa
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off on Wednesday morning. Photo: Nasa / AP
The view from the rocket's onboard camera. Photo: Nasa
The rocket fires into the sky. Photo: AP
The separation of the 'Dart' spacecraft. Photo: Nasa
'Dart' separated from Falcon X. Photo: Nasa
'Dart' on its way to Dimosphos. Photo: Nasa
A rendering of the DART spacecraft and the asteroid binary system it is targeting. Photo: NASA / JOHNS HOPKINS APL
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or 'Dart', spacecraft onboard at the Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, on November 24, 2021. Photo: Nasa / AFP.
'Dart' is on a mission to test technologies for preventing an impact on Earth by a hazardous asteroid. Photo: EPA / Nasa
The spacecraft will smash into an asteroid and test whether it would be possible to knock a speeding space rock off course if one were to threaten Earth. Photo: Nasa
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off on Wednesday morning. Photo: Nasa / AP
The view from the rocket's onboard camera. Photo: Nasa
The rocket fires into the sky. Photo: AP
The separation of the 'Dart' spacecraft. Photo: Nasa
