The time was 7:14 p.m. on Monday. You might be able to watch NASA crash a spaceship into an asteroid.
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test is a planetary defense mission designed to test a method of redirecting an Earth bound asteroid by crashing a spacecraft into it. The moonlet Dimorphos is about 7 million miles away from Earth. Dimorphos and Didymos are not threats to our planet.
Live coverage on NASA TV, NASA's website and NASA social media pages will only show the moments leading up to impact The DART probe's sole instrument, the Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical navigation, will beam back approximately one image per second as it approaches its target, which NASA will share both in a dedicated livestream and in a broadcast event.
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The camera will stop working when it hits Dimorphos at a speed of 4.1 miles per second. The Virtual Telescope Project is hoping to stream the aftermath of the DART impact with ground-based telescopes.
Because the Virtual Telescope Project's own telescopes aren't ideally positioned to view the impact, the organization has partners.
There will be a live stream from the telescopes on Monday. You can watch in the window above the Virtual Telescope Project's website, which you can access via the Virtual Telescope Project's website.
The Didymos system is just a point in the sky as seen from Earth, but if all goes according to plan, it could be possible to see increased brightness during and after impact.
We will have to wait for a better look. The Italian Space Agency's Light Italian Cubesat will fly past the impact site after being ejected by DART. Within a day or two, those images will be released.
If you can't watch live, the Virtual Telescope Project will record its video and make it available in its archives.
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