NASA To Launch DART Later This Month
By Staff Writer | October 19, 2004
NASA late yesterday said its DART, or Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous Technology, spacecraft will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Oct. 26 at 2:13 p.m. EDT. DART will demonstrate key technologies required for spacecraft to rendezvous with other craft, such as satellites, without human intervention, and will be rendezvousing with an unidentified satellite during this mission.