DART’s Small Satellite Companion Tests Camera Prior to Dimorphos Impact

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Saturday, September 24, 2022 - 17:04
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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 event.