DART’s Small Satellite Companion Takes Flight Ahead of Impact

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Wednesday, September 14, 2022 - 17:59
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Team members on NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) — the world’s first planetary defense test mission — confirmed the spacecraft’s own “mini-photographer” LICIACube (short for Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging Asteroids) successfully popped out of its spring-loaded box on Sept. 11.