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Illustration of NASAs DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agencys (ASI) LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos binary system.
Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins, APL/Steve Gribben
NASA will hold a virtual media briefing at 1 p.m. EDT Thursday, Nov. 4, to preview the launch of the agencys first planetary defense test mission, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). As a technology test, the mission will help determine if intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid is an effective way to change its course, should an Earth-threatening asteroid be discovered in the future. DARTs target asteroid is not a threat to Earth.
The briefing will livestream onNASA Television, theNASA app, the agency'swebsite, and NASAsTwitteraccount.
Briefing participants will be:
- Lindley Johnson, planetary defense officer, NASA Headquarters, Washington
- Elena Adams, DART mission systems engineer, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Laurel, Maryland
- Nancy Chabot, DART coordination lead, Johns Hopkins APL
- Andy Cheng, DART investigation team lead, Johns Hopkins APL
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