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Launch Date
11/24/2021
Launch Site
South Base, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
, US
Launch Vehicle
Falcon 9 FT5 (Falcon 9 Family)
DART is directed by NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office and managed by the Planetary Missions Program Office at Marshall Space Flight Center.
DART received support from NASA centers including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Goddard Space Flight Center, Johnson Space Center, Glenn Research Center, and Langley Research Center.
The Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission previously launched Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, DART, Transporter-7, Iridium OneWeb, and eight Starlink missions.
Aerojet Rocketdyne installed the electric propulsion system on the DART spacecraft bus delivered to the Applied Physics Laboratory.
NASA will postpone the DART mission launch from its primary launch window of 2021-07-21 to 2021-08-24 to a backup window that opens 2021-11-24 and runs to 2022-02-15.
The Falcon 9 first stage booster used on the 2022-05-13 Vandenberg launch previously launched Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, DART, and two Starlink missions.
The Falcon 9 first stage that supported Transporter-7 previously launched Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, DART, and seven Starlink missions.
The Falcon 9 booster used on the 2023-05-20 launch was flying its 11th mission after previously supporting Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, DART, Transporter-7, and seven Starlink missions.
The first stage booster supporting the 2023-11-20 mission previously launched Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, DART, Transporter-7, Iridium OneWeb, SDA-0B, and multiple prior Starlink missions.
The first stage booster supporting the 2024-03-10 Falcon 9 mission previously launched Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, DART, Transporter-7, Iridium OneWeb, SDA-0B, and multiple prior Starlink missions.
The Falcon 9 first stage that flew the 2024-07-11 mission previously launched Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, DART, Transporter-7, Iridium OneWeb, SDA-0B, and 13 Starlink missions.
The first stage booster supporting NROL-167 previously launched NROL-113, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, DART, Transporter-7, Iridium OneWeb, SDA-0B, and 14 Starlink missions.
The first-stage booster supporting the NROL-149 mission was flying its 22nd mission after previously launching Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, DART, SDA-0B, Iridium OneWeb, Transporter-7, NROL-113, NROL-167, and 14 Starlink missions.