Another Asteroid mission

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This time it's a bit more 'kinetic'.
Part of the shelved AIDA collaboaration, NASA has continued with DART, a pair of craft that will monitor the high speed impact into half a binary asteroid

Double Asteroid Redirection Test - Wikipedia

Launching in 18 months time DART will also fly past another rock, Orpheus to have a gander.
 
A week away from target, Dimorphous the moon of Didymos.

solarsystem.nasa.gov

Didymos & Dimorphos - NASA Science

Asteroid Didymos and its small moonlet Dimorphos make up what’s called a binary asteroid system – meaning the small moon (Dimorphos) orbits the larger body
solarsystem.nasa.gov solarsystem.nasa.gov
 
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