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When I was watching the show I was wondering why they did not put a second probe right behind the first to observe the impact. And when I went looking for more
by somat 4y ago
When I was watching the show I was wondering why they did not put a second probe right behind the first to observe the impact.
And when I went looking for more information about DART it turns out they did. the LICIACube. very cool.
So now the question is why was this not mentioned in the nasa show(perhaps I missed it) and why have I not heard anything about LICIACube from anywhere else(perhaps I missed this as well).
did LICIACube fail and every one is being quiet about it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Asteroid_Redirection_Test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Asteroid_Redirection_Te...
- snakeboy 4y agoYou can find the images in a few different articles (though I wouldn't be surprised if science journalists failed to specify this), as well as on NASA's website [0]. [0] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/first-images-from-italian-space-agency-s-liciacube-satellite https://www.nasa.gov/feature/first-images-from-italian-space...
- techdragon 4y agoIt worked, it’s just a very small machine with an equivalently small transmitting antenna, so even with the big dishes of the deep space network it’s going to be a while before we get all the data back. We have some data already https://www.ssdc.asi.it/liciacube/ https://www.ssdc.asi.it/liciacube/ and more is on the way!
- mkl 4y agoIt worked, and it's mentioned in the article: "the 'really impressive' Webb and Hubble images were remarkably similar to those taken by the toaster-sized satellite LICIACube, which was just 50 kilometres from the asteroid after separating from the DART spacecraft a few weeks ago."