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DART Launch Moves to Secondary Window

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Tom Patton
Feb 23, 2021
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The launch of the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission has been moved to its secondary window, pushing the launch to early 2022.

“At NASA, mission success and safety are of the utmost importance, and after a careful risk assessment, it became clear DART could not feasibly and safely launch within the primary launch window.”

Thomas Zurbuchen, as…

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