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Double Asteroid Redirection Test
Diagram of the DART spacecraft striking Dimorphos.
NamesDART
Mission typePlanetary defense mission
OperatorNASA  / APL
COSPAR ID2021-110A
SATCAT no.49497
Website
Mission duration
  • DART: 10 months and 1 day
  • LICIACube: 22 months and 19 days (in progress)
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft
ManufacturerApplied Physics Laboratory
of Johns Hopkins University
Launch mass
  • DART: 610 kg (1,340 lb)
  • LICIACube: 14 kg (31 lb)
Dimensions
  • DART: 1.8 × 1.9 × 2.6 m (5 ft 11 in × 6 ft 3 in × 8 ft 6 in)
  • ROSA: 8.5 × 2.4 m (27.9 × 7.9 ft) (each)
Power6.6 kW
Start of mission
Launch date24 November 2021, 06:21:02 UTC
RocketFalcon 9 Block 5, B1063.3
Launch siteVandenberg, SLC-4E
ContractorSpaceX
Dimorphos impactor
Impact date26 September 2022, 23:14 UTC[1][2]
Flyby of Didymos system
Spacecraft componentLICIACube (deployed from DART)
Closest approach26 September 2022, ~23:17 UTC
Distance56.7 km (35.2 mi)
Instruments
Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical navigation (DRACO)

DART mission patch  

Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was a NASA space mission aimed at testing a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects (NEOs).[3][4] It was designed to assess how much a spacecraft impact deflects an asteroid through a transfer of momentum.[5] The asteroid selected for the test poses no actual threat to Earth. The probe was launched from Earth in November 2021, and on 26 September 2022, intentionally impacted Dimorphos, the minor-planet moon of the asteroid Didymos.[6] Initial estimates of the change in the binary orbit period are expected by the first week in October.

DART was a joint project between NASA and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). The project was funded through NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office, managed by NASA's Planetary Missions Program Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center, and several NASA laboratories and offices provided technical support. International partners, such as the European Space Agency (ESA), Italian Space Agency (ASI), and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), are contributing to related or subsequent projects.[7]

Mission history

The flash and resulting ejecta from 2005 Deep Impact's Impactor spacecraft collision with the comet Tempel 1.[8]

The European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA started with separate plans for missions to test asteroid deflection strategies, but by 2015, they struck a collaboration called AIDA (Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment) involving two separate spacecraft launches that would work in synergy.[9][10][11] Under that proposal, the European spacecraft, AIM, would have launched in December 2020, and DART in July 2021. AIM would have orbited the larger asteroid to study its composition and that of its moon. DART would then kinetically impact the asteroid's moon on 26 September 2022, during a close approach to Earth.[10]

The AIM orbiter was however canceled, then replaced by Hera, that would observe the asteroid four years after the DART impact. The effects of the impact by DART would thus have to be monitored live from ground-based telescopes and radar.[12][11]

In June 2017, NASA approved a move from concept development to the preliminary design phase,[13] and in August 2018, NASA approved the project to start the final design and assembly phase.[14] On 11 April 2019, NASA announced that a SpaceX Falcon 9 would be used to launch DART.[15]

Satellite impact on an asteroid had already been implemented once, for a completely different purpose (analysis of the structure and composition of a comet), by NASA's 372 kg (820 lb) Deep Impact space probe's impactor spacecraft. On impact, it released 19 gigajoules of energy (the equivalent of 4.8 tons of TNT),[16] excavated a crater up to 150 m (490 ft) wide, decreased the perihelion of Comet Tempel 1 by 10 m (33 ft), changed orbit by 10 cm (3.9 in), and a predicted 0.0001 mm/s (0.014 in/h) velocity change after impacting the comet at the speed of ~10.2 km/s (6.3 mi/s) on 4 July 2005.[8]

Description

Spacecraft

Schematic view of DART

The DART spacecraft was an impactor with a mass of 610 kg (1,340 lb),[17] that hosted no scientific payload and had only sensors for navigation.

Camera

DRACO Camera

DART's navigation sensors included a Sun sensor, a star tracker called SMART Nav software (Small-body Maneuvering Autonomous Real Time Navigation),[18] and a 20 cm (7.9 in) aperture camera called Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical navigation (DRACO). DRACO was based on the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) onboard New Horizons spacecraft, and supported autonomous navigation to impact the asteroid's moon at its center. The optical part of DRACO was a Ritchey-Chrétien telescope equipped with telephoto lens with a field of view of 0.29° and a focal length of 2620.8mm (f/12.60). The spatial resolution of the images taken immediately before the impact are expected to be around 20 centimeters per pixel. The instrument had a mass of 8.66 kg (19.1 lb).[19]

The detector used in the camera is a CMOS image sensor measuring 2,560 × 2,160 pixels. The detector records the wavelength range from 0.4 to 1 micron (visible and near infrared). A commercial off-the-shelf CMOS detector was used instead of a custom charge-coupled device in LORRI as DRACO did not require the extreme low-light performance demanded of LORRI during its Pluto flyby. DRACO's detector performance actually met or exceeded that of LORRI because of the improvements in sensor technology in the decade separating the design of LORRI and DRACO.[20] Fed into an onboard computer with software descended from anti-missile technology, the DRACO images helped DART autonomously guide itself to its crash.[21]

Solar arrays

DART ROSA development video[note 1]

The spacecraft's solar arrays used a Roll Out Solar Array (ROSA) design, that was tested on the International Space Station (ISS) in June 2017 as part of Expedition 52.[22]

Using ROSA as the structure, a small portion of the DART solar array was configured to demonstrate Transformational Solar Array technology, which has very-high-efficiency SolAero Inverted Metamorphic (IMM) solar cells and reflective concentrators providing three times more power than current solar array technology.[23]

Antenna

DART and its spiral RLSA

The DART spacecraft was the first spacecraft to use a new type of high-gain communication antenna, a Spiral Radial Line Slot Array (RLSA). The circularly-polarized antenna operates at the X-band NASA Deep Space Network (NASA DSN) frequencies of 7.2 and 8.4 GHz, and has a gain of 29.8 dBi on downlink and 23.6 dBi on uplink. The fabricated antenna in a flat and compact shape exceeds the given requirements and has been tested through environments resulting in a TRL-6 design.[24]

Ion thruster

NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster (NEXT) operating in a vacuum chamber

DART spacecraft used the NEXT gridded ion thruster, a type of solar electric propulsion.[12][25] It was powered by 22 m2 (240 sq ft) solar arrays to generate the ~3.5 kW needed to power the NASA Evolutionary Xenon Thruster–Commercial (NEXT-C) engine.[26] Early tests of the ion thruster revealed a reset mode that induced higher current (100 A) in the spacecraft structure than expected (25 A). It was decided not to use the ion thruster further as the mission could be accomplished without it, using conventional thrusters. However, the ion thrusters remained available if needed to deal with contingencies, and had DART missed its target, the ion system could have returned DART to Dimorphos two years later.[27]

Effect of the impact on the orbit of Dimorphos and Didymos

The spacecraft hit Dimorphos in the direction opposite to the asteroid's motion. Following the impact, the orbital speed of Dimorphos is expected to have dropped slightly, which has the effect of reducing the radius of its orbit around Didymos. The trajectory of Didymos has also been modified, but in reduced proportions because the mass of Dimorphos is much lower than that of Didymos. The actual velocity change and orbital shift are yet to be measured and depended on the topography and composition of the surface. There is a poorly predictable "momentum enhancement" effect due to the contribution of recoil momentum from impact ejecta.[28] The final momentum transferred to the largest remaining fragment of the asteroid could be up to 3–5 times the incident momentum. Obtaining accurate measurements of the effect is one of the mission's main goals and will help refine models of future such impacts.[29]

The DART impact excavated surface/subsurface materials of Dimorphos, leading to the formation of a crater and/or some magnitude of reshaping (i.e., shape change without significant mass loss). Some of the ejecta may eventually hit Didymos's surface. If the kinetic energy delivered to its surface is high enough, reshaping may also occur in Didymos, given its near-critical spin rate. Reshaping on either body will modify their mutual gravitational field, leading to a reshaping-induced orbital period change, in addition to the impact-induced orbital period change. If left unaccounted for, this could lead to an erroneous interpretation of the effect of the kinetic deflection technique.[30]

Observations of the impact

File:Telescopes observing Dart's impact.jpg
Telescopes observing DART's impact

Both LICIACube[31][non-primary source needed] and the Earth-based ATLAS observatory detected the ejecta plume from the DART impact.[32][non-primary source needed] Initial estimates of the change in binary orbit period are expected within a week and with the data released by LICIACube.[33] DART's mission science depends on careful Earth-based monitoring of the orbit of Dimorphos over the subsequent days and months. Dimorphos will be too small for almost any observer to see directly, but its orbital geometry is such that it transits Didymos once each orbit and then passes behind it half an orbit later, so any observer that can detect the Didymos system will see the Didymos system dim and brighten again as the two bodies cross. The impact was planned for a moment when the distance between Didymos and Earth is at a minimum, permitting many telescopes to make observations from many locations. The asteroid will be near opposition and visible high in the night sky into 2023.[34] Detection of the change in Dimorphos's orbit around Didymos will be done by optical telescopes watching mutual eclipses of the two bodies through photometry on the Dimorphos-Didymos pair.

A detailed reconnaissance and assessment will be performed a few years later by a spacecraft called Hera, approved by ESA in November 2019, and scheduled to arrive in December 2026.[35][36]

Secondary spacecraft

Main article: LICIACube
LICIACube CubeSat, a companion satellite of the DART spacecraft

The Italian Space Agency (ASI) contributed a secondary spacecraft called LICIACube (Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids), a small CubeSat that piggybacked with DART and separated on 11 September 2022, 15 days before impact. It will try to acquire images of the impact and ejecta as it drifts past the asteroid.[35][37] LICIACube will communicate directly with Earth, sending back images of the ejecta after the Dimorphos flyby.[38] LICIACube is equipped with two optical cameras, dubbed LUKE and LEIA.[39]

Follow-up mission

In a collaborating project, the European Space Agency is developing Hera, a spacecraft that will be launched to Didymos in 2024[40] and arrive in 2027[41] (5 years after DART's impact), to do a detailed reconnaissance and assessment.[40] Hera would carry two CubeSats, Milani and Juventas.[40]

AIDA mission architecture

Host spacecraft Secondary spacecraft Remarks
DART LICIACube[42]
  • By the Italian Space Agency
  • 6U CubeSat
  • LUKE (LICIACube Unit Key Explorer) Camera and LEIA (LICIACube Explorer Imaging for Asteroid) Camera
Hera Juventas[43][44]
  • By GomSpace and GMV
  • 6U CubeSat orbiter
  • Camera, JuRa monostatic low-frequency radar,[45] accelerometers, and gravimeter[46]
  • Will attempt to land on the asteroid surface[44][46]
Milani[47]
  • By Italy/Czech/Finnish consortium
  • 6U CubeSat orbiter
  • VIS/Near-IR spectrometer, volatile analyzer
  • Will characterize Didymos and Dimorphos surface composition and the dust environment around the system
  • Will perform technology demonstration experiments
SCI

Mission profile

Target asteroid

Shape model of Didymos and its satellite Dimorphos, based on photometric light curve and radar data

The mission's target was Dimorphos in 65803 Didymos system, a binary asteroid system in which one asteroid is orbited by a smaller one. The primary asteroid (Didymos A) is about 780 m (2,560 ft) in diameter; the asteroid moon Dimorphos (Didymos B) is about 160 m (520 ft) in diameter in an orbit about 1 km (0.62 mi) from the primary.[12] The mass of the Didymos system is estimated at 528 billion kg, with Dimorphos comprising 4.8 billion kg of that total.[17] On its approach, DART initially targeted the binary system, then differentiated the larger and smaller members of the binary pair, and finally steered the spacecraft to strike the smaller Dimorphos.[21] The Didymos system is not an Earth-crossing asteroid, and there is no possibility that the deflection experiment could create an impact hazard.[50]

Choosing a binary asteroid system is advantageous because changes to Dimorphos's velocity can be measured by observing when Dimorphos subsequently passes in front of its companion, causing a dip in light that can be seen by Earth telescopes. Dimorphos was also chosen due to its appropriate size; it is in the size range of asteroids that one would want to deflect, were it on a collision course with Earth. In addition, the binary system was relatively close (11 million kilometers) to the Earth in 2022.[51]

Preflight preparations

DART being encapsulated in the Falcon 9 payload fairing on 16 November 2021

Launch preparations for DART began on 20 October 2021, as the spacecraft began fueling at Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) in California.[52] The spacecraft arrived at Vandenberg in early October 2021 after a cross-country drive. DART team members prepared the spacecraft for flight, testing the spacecraft's mechanisms and electrical system, wrapping the final parts in multilayer insulation blankets and practicing the launch sequence from both the launch site and the mission operations center at APL. DART headed to the SpaceX Payload Processing Facility on VSFB on 26 October 2021. Two days later, the team received the green light to fill DART's fuel tank with roughly 50 kg (110 lb) of hydrazine propellant for spacecraft maneuvers and attitude control. DART also carried about 60 kg (130 lb) of xenon for the NEXT-C ion engine. Engineers loaded the xenon before the spacecraft left APL in early October 2021.[53]

Falcon 9 and DART vertical at SLC-4E

Starting on 10 November 2021, engineers mated the spacecraft to the adapter that stacks on top of the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The Falcon 9 rocket without the payload fairing rolled for a static fire and later came back to the processing facility again where technicians with SpaceX installed the two halves of the fairing around the spacecraft over the course of two days, 16 and 17 November, inside the SpaceX Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base and the ground teams completed a successful Flight Readiness Review later that week with the fairing then attached to the rocket.[54]

A day before launch, the launch vehicle rolled out of the hangar and onto the launch pad at Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4 (SLC-4E); from there, it lifted off to begin DART's journey to the Didymos system and it propelled the spacecraft into space.[53]

Launch

DART separation from second stage

The DART spacecraft was launched on 24 November 2021, at 06:21:02 UTC.

Early planning suggested that DART was to be deployed into a high-altitude, high-eccentricity Earth orbit designed to avoid the Moon. In such a scenario, DART would use its low-thrust, high-efficiency NEXT ion engine to slowly escape from its high Earth orbit to a slightly inclined near-Earth solar orbit, from which it would maneuver onto a collision trajectory with its target. But because DART was launched as a dedicated Falcon 9 mission, the payload along with Falcon 9's second stage was placed directly on an Earth escape trajectory and into heliocentric orbit when the second stage reignited for a second engine startup or escape burn. Thus, although DART carries a first-of-its-kind electric thruster and plenty of xenon fuel, Falcon 9 did almost all of the work, leaving the spacecraft to perform only a few trajectory-correction burns with simple chemical thrusters as it homes in on Didymos's moon Dimorphos.[55]

Transit

Animation of DART's trajectory
  DART ·   65803 Didymos ·   Earth ·   Sun ·   2001 CB21 ·   3361 Orpheus

The transit phase before impact lasted about 9 months. During its interplanetary travel, the DART spacecraft made a distant flyby of the 578-meter-diameter near-Earth asteroid (138971) 2001 CB21 in March 2022.[56] DART passed 0.117 AU (17.5 million km; 10.9 million mi) from 2001 CB21 in its closest approach on 2 March 2022.[57]

DART's DRACO camera opened its aperture door and took its first light image of some stars on 7 December 2021, when it was 3 million km (2 million mi) away from Earth.[58] The stars in DRACO's first light image were used as calibration for the camera's pointing before it could be used to image other targets.[58] On 10 December 2021, DRACO imaged the open cluster Messier 38 for further optical and photometric calibration.[58]

On 27 May 2022, DART observed the bright star Vega with DRACO to test the camera's optics with scattered light.[59] On 1 July and 2 August 2022, DART's DRACO imager observed Jupiter and its moon Europa emerging from behind the planet, as a performance test for the SMART Nav tracking system to prepare for the Dimorphos impact.[60]

Course of the impact

Two months before the impact, on 27 July 2022, the DRACO camera detected the Didymos system from approximately 32 million km (20 million mi) away and refined its trajectory. The LICIACube nanosatellite was released on 11 September 2022, 15 days before the impact.[61] Four hours before impact, some 90,000 km (56,000 mi) away, DART began to operate in complete autonomy under control of its SMART Nav guidance system. Three hours before impact, DART performed an inventory of objects near the target. Ninety minutes before the collision, when DART was 38,000 km (24,000 mi) away from Dimorphos, the final trajectory was established.[62] When DART was 24,000 km (15,000 mi) away Dimorphos became discernible (1.4 pixels) through the DRACO camera which then continued to capture images of the asteroid's surface and transmit them in real-time.[63]

DRACO was the only instrument able to provide a detailed view of Dimorphos' surface. The use of DART's thrusters caused vibrations throughout the spacecraft and solar panels, resulting in blurred images. To ensure sharp images, the last trajectory correction was executed 4 minutes before impact and the thrusters were deactivated afterwards.[63]

Compiled timelapse of DART's final 5.5 minutes until impact

The last image, transmitted two seconds before impact, should have[needs update] a spatial resolution smaller than 20 centimeters. The impact took place on 26 September 2022, at 23:14 UTC.[2]

The head-on impact of the 500 kg (1,100 lb)[64] DART spacecraft at 6.6 km/s (4.1 mi/s)[65] likely produced an energy equivalent of about three tonnes of TNT[66] and an estimated velocity reduction of Dimorphos between 1.75 cm/s and 2.54 cm/s depending on numerous factors such as material porosity.[67] The reduction in Dimorphos's orbital velocity brings it closer to Didymos, resulting in the moon experiencing greater gravitational acceleration and thus a shorter orbital period. Although the change in Dimorphos's orbit is small, the offset in its orbital position will accumulate and become more noticeable over time.[10][50][68] The orbital period reduction from the head-on impact serves to facilitate ground-based observations of Dimorphos. An impact to the asteroid's trailing side would increase its orbital period to 12 hours and coincide with Earth's day and night cycle, which would limit ground-based telescopes from observing all orbital phases of Dimorphos nightly.[69] The impact targeted the center of Dimorphos and should decrease the orbital period, currently 11.92 hours, by roughly 10 minutes.[17] While the orbital change in this case was very small, over the course of years the tiny difference of every orbit will accumulate.[70]

For a hypothetical Earth-threatening body even such a tiny change, if it were applied early enough, could be sufficient to mitigate or prevent an impact. As the diameter of Earth is only around 13,000 kilometers, a hypothetical asteroid impact could be avoided with as little of a shift of half of that (6,500 kilometers). A 2 cm/s velocity change accumulates to that distance in approximately 10 years.

Sequence of operations for impact

Date
(before impact) 		Distance from
Dimorphos[71] 		Image Events[1][72]
27 July 2022
(T-60 days) 		38,000,000 km (24,000,000 mi)
The DRACO camera detects the Didymos system.
11 September 2022
23:14 UTC
(T-15 days) 		8,000,000 km (5,000,000 mi) Ejection of LICIACube, which maneuvers to avoid crashing into the asteroid.[61]
26 September 2022
19:14 UTC
(T-4 hours) 		89,000 km (55,000 mi) Terminal phase—start of autonomous navigation with SMART Nav. DRACO locks onto Didymos since Dimorphos is not visible yet.[2]
22:14 UTC
(T-60 minutes) 		22,000 km (14,000 mi)
The DRACO camera detects Dimorphos.
22:54 UTC
(T-20 minutes) 		7,500 km (4,700 mi) SMART Nav enters precision lock onto Dimorphos and DART begins thrusting toward Dimorphos.[2]
23:10 UTC
(T-4 minutes) 		1,500 km (930 mi)
Start of final course correction
23:11 UTC
(T-2 minutes 30 seconds) 		920 km (570 mi)
Last image with both Didymos (lower-left) and Dimorphos entirely in frame is taken
23:12 UTC
(T-2 minutes) 		740 km (460 mi) End of final course correction
23:14 UTC
(T-20 seconds) 		130 km (81 mi) The photos taken reach the expected spatial resolution.
23:14 UTC
(T-11 seconds) 		68 km (42 mi)
Last image showing all of Dimorphos by DART
23:14 UTC
(T-3 seconds) 		18 km (11 mi)
23:14 UTC
(T-2 seconds) 		12 km (7.5 mi)
Final complete image of Dimorphos transmitted
23:14 UTC
(T-1 second) 		6 km (3.7 mi)
Last partial image taken by DART before impact, transmission of the image was interrupted by the destruction of the spacecraft.
23:14 UTC
(T-0) 		0 km (0 mi) Impact Dimorphos (estimated impact velocity 6 kilometers/second)[73]
23:17 UTC
(T+2 min 45 s)[69] 		56.7 km (35.2 mi) Closest approach to Dimorphos by LICIACube.
  • DART Mission animated video from launch to impact along with separation of LICIACube
  • Size of DART and the two Didymos asteroids
    Size of DART and the two Didymos asteroids
  • Infographic showing the effect of DART's impact on the orbit of Didymos B while deployment of LICIACube
    Infographic showing the effect of DART's impact on the orbit of Didymos B while deployment of LICIACube

See also

Notes

  1. ^ notice the Transformational Solar Array as here in this image below.
    Transformational Solar Array

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