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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00:30There's one more major milestone coming up to complete today's mission, and that is deployment
00:44of the DART spacecraft from the Falcon 9 second stage, due to happen in about ten seconds
00:49from now.
00:50The view you see from the second stage camera is the DART spacecraft.
00:55You're going to listen to hear the call out and watch for DART separation.
01:03DART separation confirmed.
01:13And to those watching, you're witnessing a successful deployment of the DART spacecraft.
01:19The impact of the DART spacecraft with the small asteroid Dimorphos is scheduled to happen
01:25sometime between the end of September and early October in 2022, when the double asteroid
01:31are closest to the Earth.