NASA DART Spacecraft And Spinning SpaceX Booster Seen From Earth

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NASA's DART spacecraft and the 2nd stage booster captured 'captured about 10 hours after launch," by the Virtual Telescope Project.  Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: Gianluca Masi / Virtual Telescope Project / SpaceX |  edited by Steve Spaleta

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00:38 - There's one more major milestone coming up

00:42 to complete today's mission,

00:43 and that is deployment of the DART spacecraft

00:45 from the Falcon 9 second stage,

00:47 due to happen in about 10 seconds from now.

00:50 Here you see from the second stage camera

00:53 is the DART spacecraft.

00:54 We're gonna listen to hear the call out

00:56 and watch for DART separation.

00:58 - DART separation confirmed.

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01:07 - And to those watching,

01:14 you're witnessing a successful deployment

01:17 of the DART spacecraft.

01:18 The impact of the DART spacecraft

01:21 with the small asteroid Dimorphos

01:23 is scheduled to happen sometime

01:25 between the end of September and early October in 2022,

01:29 when the double asteroid are closest to the Earth.

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