NASA Confirms DART Mission Test Successfully Altered Asteroid Dimorphos' Orbit by 32 Minutes: All Details

Chris K

Chris K

Chris K
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NASA has announced that the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission that crashed a spacecraft into asteroid Dimorphos successfully altered its orbit around parent asteroid Didymos by 32 minutes. According to the US space agency, the target of the test was a minimum successful orbit period change of Dimorphos as change of 73 seconds or more. This early data sho...

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