The first photos of DART's historic impact with an asteroid which were taken by a 'mini photographer' spacecraft have been released.
concluded earlier this week and the first photos taken by a small “mini photographer” spacecraft called the LICIACube have been published., short for Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging Asteroids, is a small camera-equipped spacecraft that was designed to allow astronomers and scientists to observe DART’s impact with Dimorphos.
As explained back when the LICIACube successfully deployed from DART ahead of the impact, the “mini photographer” spacecraft was designed, manufactured, and is operated by the Italian aerospace company Argotec with participation from the National Institute of Astrophysics, and the Universities of Bologna and Milan.
DART team engineers lift and inspect the LICIACube CubeSat after it arrived at APL in August. The miniaturized satellite will deploy 10 days before DART’s asteroid impact, providing essential footage of the collision and subsequent plume of materials. Here, one of the solar panel arrays on the satellite’s wings is visible. | NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitmanand show the state of the asteroid Dimorphos a few minutes after DART’s initial collision on September 26.
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