NASA DART Spacecraft And Spinning SpaceX Booster Seen From Earth
NASA's DART spacecraft and the 2nd stage booster captured 'captured about 10 hours after launch," by the Virtual Telescope Project.
Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: Gianluca Masi / Virtual Telescope Project / SpaceX | edited by Steve Spaleta
Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: Gianluca Masi / Virtual Telescope Project / SpaceX | edited by Steve Spaleta
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00:40 There's one more major milestone coming up
00:42 to complete today's mission, and that
00:44 is deployment of the DART spacecraft
00:46 from the Falcon 9 second stage, due to happen in about 10
00:49 seconds from now.
00:51 Here you see from the second stage camera
00:53 is the DART spacecraft.
00:54 We're going to listen to hear the call out
00:56 and watch for DART separation.
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01:01 DART separation confirmed.
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01:13 And to those watching, you're witnessing
01:15 a successful deployment of the DART spacecraft.
01:19 The impact of the DART spacecraft
01:21 with the small asteroid Dimorphos
01:24 is scheduled to happen sometime between the end of September
01:27 and early October in 2022, when the double asteroid are
01:31 closest to the Earth.
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