NASA successfully shifted an asteroid's orbit – DART spacecraft crashed into and moved Dimorphos
- Written by David Barnhart, Professor of Astronautics, University of Southern California
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test successfully changed the orbit of the small moonlet Dimorphos. NASA/Johns Hopkins APLNASA recently crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in an attempt to push the rocky traveler off its trajectory. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test – or DART – was meant to test one potential strategy for...





