NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is a mission designed to test planetary defense techniques. It aims to demonstrate the ability to change the motion of an asteroid through a kinetic impactor technique. DART is targeting the binary asteroid system Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos. The goal is to impact Dimorphos with the DART spacecraft to see if its orbit can be altered in a way that would be relevant for planetary defense against potentially hazardous asteroids.