Draco Olympics

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DART Launch Moves to Secondary Window

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), NASA's first flight ... for Optical-navigation (DRACO) imager, which needs to be reinforced to ...

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Launch window 1 opened on the Tokyo Olympics opening and the 2nd window coincides with the back to back 2022 Olympics.

The new window also coincides with the likely November  torch ignition for the 2022 torch.

DART delayed to November launch as environmental testing ...

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3 days ago — The new launch date of November 24, 2021 is a delay from an original target of July 21. DART is NASA's first planetary defense demonstration, .

The complementary TROJAN impact mission is also set for launch in the same opening window/ likely torch ignition. 

NASA

First Mission to the Trojan Asteroids Installs its Final Instrument

With less than a year to launch, NASA's Lucy mission's third and final ... spacecraft on track for its originally planned October 16, 2021 launch.

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