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Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)
Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is the first space mission to demonstrate the kinetic effects of crashing an impactor spacecraft into an asteroid moon for planetary defense purposes. The mission was intended to test whether a spacecraft impact could successfully deflect an asteroid, if one was ever discovered to be on a collision course with Earth in the future. The target of the mission was a binary Near-Earth asteroid 65803 Didymos. DART is a NASA project that is developed, managed, and operated by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), and was developed for NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office. The Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids (LICIACube) was DART's companion cubesat, contributed by Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) and built by Argotec. LICIACube was deployed from the DART spacecraft roughly 15 days prior to DART's kinetic impact to capture images of the event and its effects. The technology goals of NASA's DART mission include: measure the asteroid deflection; return high resolution images of the target prior to the kinetic impact; demonstrate autonomous guidance and navigation to hit the 150-meter target body. DART intercepted the secondary member of Didymos binary system, called Dimorphos, on 26 September 2022.
The SBN is the lead PDS node to archive the DART mission data.
Instruments
- Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Spacecraft
- Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for OpNav (DRACO) - A narrow field of view imager
- Light Italian Cubesat for Imaging of Asteroids (LICIACube) Spacecraft
- Liciacube Explorer Imaging for Asteroid (LEIA) - A narrow field of view imager
- Liciacube Unit Key Explorer (LUKE) - An RGB imager
Data Sets
DART Spacecraft Data
- DART Raw Images for the Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for OpNav (DRACO) instrument v3.0
urn:nasa:pds:dart:data_dracoraw::3.0 - DART Calibrated Images for the Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for OpNav (DRACO) instrument v3.0
urn:nasa:pds:dart:data_dracocal::3.0 - DART Documentation for the Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for OpNav (DRACO) instrument v3.0
urn:nasa:pds:dart:document_draco::3.0 - DART Calibrated Images with Geometric Backplanes for the Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for OpNav (DRACO) instrument
urn:nasa:pds:dart:data_dracoddp::1.0 - DART Maneuver Acceleration Files (MAF) Data Collection
urn:nasa:pds:dart:data_maf::1.0 - DSN Media Calibration (TRK-2-23) Files for DART Data Collection
urn:nasa:pds:dart:data_trk223::1.0 - DART Radio Science Tracking and Navigation Files (TRK-2-34) Data Collection
urn:nasa:pds:dart:data_trk234::1.0 - DART Radio Science Document Collection
urn:nasa:pds:dart:document_rs::1.0
LICIACube Spacecraft Data
- Light Italian Cubesat for Imaging of Asteroids (LICIACube) Document Collection
urn:nasa:pds:liciacube:document::1.0 - Liciacube Explorer Imaging for Asteroid (LEIA) Light Italian Cubesat for Imaging of Asteroids (LICIACube) Raw Data Collection
urn:nasa:pds:liciacube:leia_raw::1.0 - LICIACube Explorer Imaging for Asteroid (LEIA) Calibrated Data Collection
urn:nasa:pds:liciacube:leia_calibrated::1.0 - Liciacube Unit Key Explorer (LUKE) Light Italian Cubesat for Imaging of Asteroids (LICIACube) Raw Data Collection
urn:nasa:pds:liciacube:luke_raw::1.0 - LICIACube Unit Key Explorer (LUKE) Calibrated Data Collection
urn:nasa:pds:liciacube:luke_calibrated::1.0 - LICIACube Radio Science Tracking and Navigation Files (TRK-2-34) Data Collection
urn:nasa:pds:liciacube:data_tnf::1.0
DART Ground-based Observations
- Las Campanas Observatory (LCO)
- DART Las Campanas Observatory Telescopic Observations Documentation Collection
urn:nasa:pds:dart_teleobs:document_lco::1.0 - DART Las Campanas Observatory IMACS Magellan Baade 6.5m Telescope Raw Data Collection
urn:nasa:pds:dart_teleobs:data_lcoimacsraw::1.0 - DART Las Campanas Observatory IMACS Magellan Baade 6.5m Telescope Calibrated Data Collection
urn:nasa:pds:dart_teleobs:data_lcoimacscal::1.0 - DART Las Campanas Observatory IMACS Magellan Baade 6.5m Telescope Photometry Derived Data Collection
urn:nasa:pds:dart_teleobs:data_lcoimacsddp::1.0 - DART Las Campanas Observatory Swope 1m Telescope Raw Data Collection
urn:nasa:pds:dart_teleobs:data_lcoswoperaw::1.0 - DART Las Campanas Observatory Swope 1m Telescope Calibrated Data Collection
urn:nasa:pds:dart_teleobs:data_lcoswopecal::1.0 - DART Las Campanas Observatory Swope 1m Telescope Photometry Derived Data Collection
urn:nasa:pds:dart_teleobs:data_lcoswopeddp::1.0
- DART Las Campanas Observatory Telescopic Observations Documentation Collection
- Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT) Network
- DART Las Cumbres Observatory 1.0m Telescope Documentation Collection
urn:nasa:pds:dart_teleobs:document_lcogt::1.0 - DART Las Cumbres Observatory Network (LCOGT) Finger Lakes Instrumentation (FLI) Raw Data Collection
urn:nasa:pds:dart_teleobs:data_lcogt_fliraw::1.0 - DART Las Cumbres Observatory Network (LCOGT) Finger Lakes Instrumentation (FLI) Calibrated Data Collection
urn:nasa:pds:dart_teleobs:data_lcogt_flical::1.0 - DART Las Cumbres Observatory Network (LCOGT) Finger Lakes Instrumentation (FLI) Derived Data Product Collection
urn:nasa:pds:dart_teleobs:data_lcogt_fliddp::1.0 - DART Las Cumbres Observatory Sinistro Imager Raw Data Collection
urn:nasa:pds:dart_teleobs:data_lcogtraw::1.0 - DART Las Cumbres Observatory Network (LCOGT) Sinistro Imager Calibrated Data Collection
urn:nasa:pds:dart_teleobs:data_lcogtcal::1.0 - DART Las Cumbres Observatory Network (LCOGT) Sinistro Imager Derived Data Product Collection
urn:nasa:pds:dart_teleobs:data_lcogtddp::1.0
- DART Las Cumbres Observatory 1.0m Telescope Documentation Collection
- Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT)
- DART Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT) Raw Data Collection v2.0
urn:nasa:pds:dart_teleobs:data_ldtraw::2.0 - DART Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT) Calibrated Data Collection v2.0
urn:nasa:pds:dart_teleobs:data_ldtcal::2.0 - DART Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT) Derived Data Product Collection v2.0
urn:nasa:pds:dart_teleobs:data_ldtddp::2.0 - DART Lowell Document Collection v2.0
urn:nasa:pds:dart_teleobs:document_ldt::2.0
- DART Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT) Raw Data Collection v2.0
- Magdalena Ridge Observatory (MRO)
- DART Magdalena Ridge Observatory 2.4m Telescope Documentation Collection
urn:nasa:pds:dart_teleobs:document_mro::1.0 - DART Magdalena Ridge Observatory 2.4m Telescope Raw Data Product Collection
urn:nasa:pds:dart_teleobs:data_mroraw::1.0 - DART Magdalena Ridge Observatory 2.4m Telescope Calibrated Data Product Collection
urn:nasa:pds:dart_teleobs:data_mrocal::1.0 - DART Magdalena Ridge Observatory 2.4m Telescope Derived Data Product Collection
urn:nasa:pds:dart_teleobs:data_mroddp::1.0
- DART Magdalena Ridge Observatory 2.4m Telescope Documentation Collection
Other Mission Data
- DART Shapemodel Archive Bundle
urn:nasa:pds:dart_shapemodel::1.0 - DART SPICE Kernel Archive Bundle for DART Mission
Related Datasets
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