The mission target is Dimorphos, a small moon orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Didymos . This is an illustration of NASA's DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency's LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos system. It's the perfect time for the DART mission to occur. It's the Italian Space Agency's first deep space mission. In July 2005, NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft launched a 815-pound (370-kilogram) copper impact into a comet, Tempel 1.

Source: CNN November 24, 2021 12:07 UTC