"Yimvakalelo engenakuchazwa ukubona into oye wabandakanyeka kuyo ukusukela oko 'amagama asephepheni' esiba yinyani kwaye aziswa emajukujukwini," utshilo u-Andy Cheng, omnye wophando lwe-DART ekhokelela eJohns Hopkins APL kunye nomntu owezayo. phezulu nombono we-DART. “Esi sisiphelo nje sesenzo sokuqala, kwaye uphando lwe-DART kunye namaqela obunjineli anomsebenzi omninzi ekufuneka wenziwe kulo nyaka uzayo ulungiselela umsitho ophambili ─ Impembelelo ye-DART yekinetic kwiDimorphos. Kodwa ngokuhlwanje siyabhiyoza!”
Isixhobo esisodwa se-DART, i-Didymos Reconnaissance kunye ne-Asteroid Camera ye-Optical navigation (DRACO), iya kuvula iveki ukusuka ngoku kwaye inike imifanekiso yokuqala evela kwi-spacecraft. I-DART iya kuqhubeka nokuhamba ngaphandle nje komjikelo woMhlaba eLangeni kwiinyanga ezili-10 ezizayo de i-Didymos kunye ne-Dimorphos zibe kufutshane ne-6.8 yezigidi zeemayile (11 yezigidi zeekhilomitha) ukusuka eMhlabeni.
Isikhokelo esiphucukileyo, ukuhamba, kunye nenkqubo yokulawula, esebenza kunye ne-algorithms ebizwa ngokuba yi-Small-body Maneuvering Autonomous Real Time Navigation (SMART Nav), iya kwenza ukuba i-spacecraft ye-DART ibone kwaye ihlukanise phakathi kwee-asteroids ezimbini. Inkqubo iya kuthi emva koko iqondise isiphekepheke kwiDimorphos. Le nkqubo yonke iya kwenzeka kwisithuba esimalunga neyure yempembelelo.
UJohns Hopkins APL ulawula ubuthunywa be-DART kwi-Ofisi yoLungelelaniso loKhuseleko lwePlanethi yeNASA njengeprojekthi ye-Ofisi yeNkqubo yeMishini yePlanethi. I-NASA inika inkxaso kwi-mission evela kumaziko amaninzi, kuquka i-Jet Propulsion Laboratory e-Southern California, i-Goddard Space Flight Centre e-Greenbelt, eMaryland, i-Johnson Space Centre e-Houston, i-Glenn Research Centre e-Cleveland, kunye ne-Langley Research Centre e-Hampton, eVirginia. Ukuqaliswa kulawulwa yiNkqubo yeeNkonzo zokuQaliswa kweNASA, esekelwe kwiZiko le-Kennedy Space Centre eFlorida. I-SpaceX ngumboneleli weenkonzo zokuphehlelelwa kwimishini ye-DART.
