DART wystartował 24.11. o 06:21:02 z Vandenberg wystartowała RN Falcon-9R. Wyniosła ona w T+29' 30" na orbitę heliocentryczną sondę
DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) oraz
Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids (LICIACube). Pierwszy stopień RN (B1063.3) w T+8' 52" wylądował na barce ASDS OCISLY na Pacyfiku.
http://lk.astronautilus.pl/n211116.htm#06NASA DART launchF9/DART: SpaceX confirms a "nominal escape burn," meaning DART is now traveling fast enough to escape Earth's gravity and head for its target, the small asteroid Dimorphos; with today's on-time launch, impact is expected on Sept. 26 next year
https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/1463400544769302532
https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/1463407737845526532Here is a list of the key events during SpaceX’s launch from California tonight with NASA’s DART asteroid mission:•T+01:12 - Max-Q
•T+02:33 - Main engine cutoff
•T+02:36 - Stage separation
•T+02:44 - Stage 2 ignition
•T+03:11 - Fairing jettison
•T+08:06 - Stage 2 cutoff
•T+08:52 - Stage 1 landing on drone ship
•T+28:37 - Stage 2 restart
•T+29:30 - Stage 2 cutoff
•T+55:40 - DART separation
Here are some statistics on tonight's launch:129th launch of a Falcon 9 rocket since 2010
137th launch of Falcon rocket family since 2006
3rd launch of Falcon 9 booster B1063
18th SpaceX launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base
74th flight of a reused Falcon booster
36th SpaceX launch for NASA
26th Falcon 9 launch of 2021
26th launch by SpaceX in 2021
6th orbital launch attempt based out of Vandenberg in 2021
https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/11/23/falcon-9-dart-mission-status-center/https://www.urania.edu.pl/wiadomosci/test-obrony-przeciw-planetoidami-dart-wyslany-na-rakiecie-firmy-spacexhttps://naukawpolsce.pap.pl/aktualnosci/news%2C90331%2Cusa-wystartowala-misja-dart-pierwszy-test-obrony-ziemi-przed-asteroidamiPhotos: Falcon 9 rocket stands on Vandenberg launch pad with NASA asteroid probeNovember 24, 2021 Stephen Clark
These photos show SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket standing on Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg Space Force Base, hours before liftoff with NASA’s DART mission, an experiment to test how a spacecraft might deflect a hazardous asteroid away from Earth.
Credit: Brian Sandoval / Spaceflight Nowhttps://spaceflightnow.com/2021/11/24/photos-falcon-9-rocket-stands-on-vandenberg-launch-pad-with-nasa-asteroid-probe/NASA, SpaceX Launch DART: First Test Mission to Defend Planet EarthNov 24, 2021 RELEASE 21-161
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the world’s first full-scale mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards, launched Wednesday at 1:21 a.m. EST on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. (...)
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-spacex-launch-dart-first-test-mission-to-defend-planet-earthFalcon 9 second stage shutdown, vehicle now in hyperbolic Earth escape orbit with C3 = 6.52 km2/s2
https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1463400199091544065SpaceX Launches DART Mission on Ten-Month Impact Trek to Binary Asteroid
by Ben Evans Nov 24
(...) Tonight’s spectacular launch equaled with 2020 for the greatest number of Falcon 9 flights in a single calendar year. So far, SpaceX has executed 26 missions, using only nine booster cores, with two launches out of Vandenberg, ten from historic Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida and the remaining 14 from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-40 at neighboring Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
This year’s roster to date has seen 15 dedicated Starlink missions, a pair of multi-payload Transporter “rideshares” in January and June and two Cargo Dragon and two Crew Dragon flights to the International Space Station (ISS).
Additional launches included a pair of geostationary communications satellites for SiriusXM and the Turkish Government and last September’s historic all-civilian Inspiration4 crewed mission to low-Earth orbit.
With the flight of DART, SpaceX has also sent its first payload to a physical destination in deep space. Although it previously lofted the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), bound for the L1 Lagrange Point, situated some 930,000 miles (1.1 million kilometers) beyond Earth, back in February 2015, and the maiden voyage of the Falcon Heavy set Elon Musk’s cherry-red Tesla Roadster on a Mars-crossing trajectory in February 2018, DART is taking specific aim on a deep-space target: the binary asteroid system of Didymos and its small companion, Dimorphos.
As outlined in AmericaSpace’s preview story, the 1,480-pound (670-kilogram) DART is a ten-month mission to hit Dimorphos at a velocity of about 4.1 miles per second (6.5 kilometers per second) in October 2022. It is hoped that the impact will disrupt Dimorphos sufficiently as to slow its near-circular path around Didymos by as much as ten minutes, reducing its orbital length from 11.9 hours to about 11.83 hours. (...)
https://www.americaspace.com/2021/11/24/spacex-launches-dart-mission-on-ten-month-impact-trek-to-binary-asteroid/https://blogs.nasa.gov/dart/2021/11/24/nasa-spacex-launch-dart-first-planetary-defense-test-mission/https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/nasa-aims-dart-at-a-double-asteroid-expecting-a-cataclysmic-ending-2/https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/23/22797714/nasa-dart-asteroid-planetary-defense-redirect-crash-course-launchhttps://arstechnica.com/science/2021/11/with-tonights-launch-nasa-starts-getting-serious-about-planetary-defense/https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/missions/spacex-launches-nasas-dart-asteroid-impact-spacecraft/https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2021/11/falcon-9-dart-launch/DART
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/dart_apl.htmLICIACube
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/liciacube.htmw DART
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