Asteroid Smashing Looks Like Nothing You Ever Imagined

[Ptah]

[Ptah]

1. Secondary spacecraft

Secondary spacecraft
Main article: LICIACube

LICIACube CubeSat, a companion satellite of the DART spacecraft
The Italian Space Agency (ASI) contributed a secondary spacecraft called LICIACube (Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids), a small CubeSat that piggybacked with DART and separated on 11 September 2022, 15 days before impact. It will try to acquire images of the impact and ejecta as it drifts past the asteroid. LICIACube will communicate directly with Earth, sending back images of the ejecta after the Dimorphos flyby. LICIACube is equipped with two optical cameras, dubbed LUKE and LEIA.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Asteroid_Redirection_Test#Secondary_spacecraft

[3Hotdogs]

2. So it took 10 months from launch to impact.

Amazing.

[GreenWave]

3. Asteroid or giant baklava?

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[mitch96]

4. This event just blows me away. Hit something 6.8 million miles away, record the images

Have telescopes on Earth view it and then send another spacecraft to see what damage was done.. Amazing.. The trick is to see if the small moon actually changed course...
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[Wounded Bear]

5. Nice to see a followup video...nt