Launch of the DART by NASA-National Aeronautics and Space Adminstration is scheduled for the end of November. With this probe, NASA will be experimentally testing, for the first time, the possibility of deviating the trajectory of an asteroid that poses a potential threat to the Earth, through controlled impact.

Fundamental to the success of this mission is the contribution made by the satellite LiciaCube, a small all-Italian probe with the task of capturing images of DART during the impact with the asteroid.

LiciaCube has seen contribution by the researchers in the ASTRA research group headed by Professor Michèle Lavagna, Andrea Capannolo and Giovanni Zanotti, from the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology at Politecnico di Milano.

https://www.polimi.it/en/news-details/article/10/a-fine-novembre-il-lancio-della-sonda-dart-della-nasa-9880/

Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab

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