NASA to Provide Update on DART, World's First Planetary Defense Test

An image of asteroid Didymos (bottom left) and its moonlet, Dimorphos, about 2.5 minutes before the impact of NASAs DART spacecraft on Monday, Sept. 26, 2022.
Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL

NASA will host a media briefing at 2 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Oct. 11, to discuss the agencys Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission and its intentional collision with its target asteroid, Dimorphos.

The briefing will air on NASA TV, the NASA app, and the agencyswebsite.

Participants include leaders from NASA, the Italian Space Agency, and the DART mission team.

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