Media Briefing: NASA Previews DART Mission's Impact with Asteroid Dimorphos (Sept. 22, 2022)

From NASA Headquarters in Washington, senior leaders from NASA and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory preview the final activities of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft before its impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos—which poses no threat to Earth.

DART, the world’s first mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards, will impact Dimorphos at 7:14 p.m. EDT on Monday, Sept. 26.