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DART Overview (A. Cheng)
DART Overview (A. Cheng)
Andy Cheng
JHU/APL
15 Nov 2018
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Regimes of Primary Applicability for Planetary Defense Mitigation
Recommendation:
“the first priority for a space
About 150 PHAs
mission in the mitigation
area is an experimental
test of a kinetic impactor”
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Launch
June 15, 2021
LICIA
(Light Italian Cubesat
for Imaging of Asteroids)
ASI contribution, under
consideration
Earth-Based Observations
• Target the binary asteroid Didymos system
0.07 AU range at impact
Predicted ~8-minute change • Impact Didymos-B and change its orbital period
in binary orbit period • Measure the period change from Earth
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DART Ion Propulsion Mission
First flight of NASA NEXT-C ion engine
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NEXT on gimbal,
without cover
Deployed Configuration
NEXT
within DRACO imager
cover HGA (inside PAF)
on gimbal PAF
Battery
Stowed Configuration
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DRACO Imager
Panchromatic Visible Narrow-Angle Camera
Primary Secondary
FPA
Mirror Mirror
DRACO Summary
Aperture 208 mm
f/ 12.6
FOV 0.29° × 0.29°
Telescope Ritchey-Chretien with field-
flattening lens, composite-Zerodur
Passband 400 nm - 1000 nm
Detector array BAE CIS2521F sCMOS
Bench Lens
Detector Front side illuminated,
characteristics rolling/global shutter, 2560 × 2160 DRACO acquires images at 0.5
format, 6.5 µm pixel pitch m/px by 17 sec before impact, 2x2
SNR (30 days out) >7 binned images
SNR (final) >100 Characterize boulders and surface
features of 1 m size
DRACO is based on New Horizons LORRI Locate impact site to within 1 m
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LICIA Cube:
ASI cubesat for DART
LICIA Cube based on the ArgoMoon 6U
cubesat for the NASA EM-1 mission
ArgoMoon has dual imaging systems,
propulsive capability, onboard imaging
ArgoMoon stowed
processing and target recognition configuration
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LICIA Cube:
Science Objectives
Multiple (at least 3) images of the ejecta plume taken over a span of
time and phase angle, that, with reasonable expectations concerning
the ejecta mass and particle size distribution, can potentially
Multiple (at least 3) images of the DART impact site having sufficient
resolution (< 1 m/pixel) to allow measurements of the size and
morphology of the crater; and taken sufficiently late after impact that
the plume can be reasonably expected to have cleared
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DART Team Meeting –
please come
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