Lab scientists worked with collaborators from the JHAPL to combine the Lab HPGe gamma-ray sensor into the GRS and integrate it with additional components for the spaceflight mission.

DART's view of Dimorphos less than two minutes before impact on Sept. 26, 2022. (Image credit: NASA/JHUAPL) The golf cart-sized DART spacecraft slammed into Dimorphos at 7:14 p.m. EDT (2314 GMT ...

Right on time at 1:21 a.m. EST, NASA and SpaceX launched a planetary defense mission called DART — Double Asteroid Redirect Test — from California.

Only on Friday, Dec. 27, do NASA and JHUAPL mission controllers expect to hear their first signal from the Parker Solar Probe after its flyby. Don't expect much, like new photos or sun videos.

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On Monday (Sept. 26) at 7:14 p.m. EDT (2314 GMT), if all goes well, NASA's DART spacecraft will crash into the asteroid Dimorphos in an attempt to alter the moonlet's trajectory.

The New Horizons spacecraft, launched in 2006, is now 60 times farther from the sun than Earth. Credit: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI illustration Zooming through the outer reaches of the solar system, A ...