NASA DART - SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Asteroid Impact Mission

SpaceX is preparing to launch NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirect Test) mission onboard a Falcon 9 rocket. DART is a demonstration mission to determine the effects of an intentional impact on an asteroid. DART’s collision with the asteroid moon Dimorphos is set for October 2022.

The launch of the small spacecraft from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for November 23rd at 10:21 Pacific Time (6:21 UTC on November 24th).

[xxjuicydabzxx]

Imagine if we hit an alien city with all that kinetic energy basically a big nuke and we started a intergalactic war 😅🤣

[cal-native]

It was pretty spectacular watching the first stage ripping across the sky from San Diego👍

[MistSoalar]

Das, Chris G, Ian, and Jack. You guys absolutely nailed the streaming. What a perfect dynamics of space nerds.

[iospace]

faring separation- 1:07:55
entry burn- 1:11:18-1:11:48
seco- 1:12:45
first stage on droneship- 1:32:22
ses 2- 1:33:14
seco 2- 1:34:12

[danthemanzizle]

love seeing the earth shrink away like that! And the unreal acceleration from the Merlin 1D

[ronaldheadrick]

This is going to be the most exciting moment of our lives for our future ahead.

[alanc]

Wish I could have watched this live but work got in the way. So replay it is.. Was great coverage by all of you guys and thank you for bringing it to all of us.

[woutwezenbeek]

Mission succes, dimorphos was successfully hit by the dart spacecraft only a couple of minutes ago.

[Scottuz]

anyone else wondering if there is a reason behind this launch that they are not telling us?
practicing asteroid deflection is worrying that they feel the need to do it now, and what aren't they telling us about what this could be, really?!?!?! just me then?

[davidmacrory]

Thank-you for this. It is amazing that what was pure science fiction, & the subject of many "outer-space" movies up until a few short years ago, now & here's the first DART mission to intercept an asteroid. Absolutely magnificent. In the late 1960's I worked for the U.S. Army Missile Command at Redstone Arsenal, AL. We were so proud of the Saturn Rocket; but hardly even imagined what is now being accomplished.
What a wide-open, unlimited future for humanity.

[bpark]

It will alter the trajectory of the system MORE than if you hit the big one directly. After, the object is to ALTER the course as much as possible with a given craft weight.

[bylogic-xlabs]

I just wanna say… i dont wanna close my eyes!!!!

[MichalHinrichs]

Congratulations SpaceX, Elon Musk, and NASA for another spectacular launch 🚀!!!

[hoannguyen]

Indeed, when the US deflects the flight of a celestial body in order to prevent the impact with the earth,
This deflecting of a celestial body
also changes the gravitational force system in the universe! This is good or bad no one can predict…

[willcronan]

Great Launch...I'm sure the Hitching Post was popping last night!

[Ayush-vykq]

Wow that sound was mind blowing.
1:04:50

[FredRedFrred]

This is a very good idea, and important.

[Alltypz]

That was an Atlas hotspot in the 60s. Great show 👏.

[martinh]

It's a rocket powered interplanetary optically guided inertia delivery device. :)

[welshbordergirl]

Can we get a round of applause for Michael’s tracking shots, they were epic! 👏😻