After completing months of tests and assembly, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is in transit to Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) in California ahead of its launch. DART is a first-of-its-kind NASA mission to demonstrate an asteroid deflection via a kinetic impact.
The probe will launch on a flight-proven Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at VSFB no earlier than November 23 at 22:20 PST (06:20 UTC on November 24).