Hubble Views Impact

As of my last knowledge update in September 2021, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission was planned by NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office. Its objective was to test the feasibility of changing the trajectory of an asteroid by intentionally crashing a spacecraft into it. The target for this mission was a binary asteroid system called Didymos, which consists of a larger primary asteroid (Didymos) and a smaller moonlet (Dimorphos or "Didymoon").