Falcon 9
Success
Nov 24, 2021DART — Planetary Defense Test
Falcon 9 launched NASA’s DART, the first mission to test deflecting an asteroid by kinetic impact — later proven to have changed the moonlet’s orbit.
Mission facts
| Date | Nov 24, 2021 |
| Vehicle | Falcon 9 |
| Payload | NASA DART impactor |
| Destination | Heliocentric (asteroid Didymos) |
| Customer | NASA |
| Booster | B1063 (new) |
| Recovery | Droneship |
| Crewed | No |
| Outcome | Success |
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