"He manaʻo hiki ʻole ke ʻike i kahi mea āu i komo ai mai ka wā i lilo ai ka 'hua'ōlelo ma ka pepa' i mea maoli a hoʻokuʻu ʻia i ka lewa," wahi a Andy Cheng, kekahi o ka hoʻokolokolo DART ma Johns Hopkins APL a me ka mea i hele mai. me ka manaʻo o DART. "ʻO kēia wale nō ka hopena o ka hana mua, a he nui nā hana a nā hui noiʻi a me nā ʻenekinia DART i ka makahiki aʻe e hoʻomākaukau ai no ka hanana nui ─ ka hopena kinetic o DART ma Dimorphos. Akā hoʻolauleʻa mākou i kēia pō!"
ʻO ka mea kani hoʻokahi a DART, ka Didymos Reconnaissance a me Asteroid Camera for Optical navigation (DRACO), e hoʻomaka i hoʻokahi pule mai kēia manawa a hāʻawi i nā kiʻi mua mai ka mokulele. E hoʻomau ka huakaʻi ʻo DART ma waho o ka ʻōpuni o ka Honua a puni ka Lā no nā mahina he 10 e hiki mai ana a hiki i kahi kokoke loa ʻo Didymos lāua ʻo Dimorphos i 6.8 miliona mau mile (11 miliona mau kilomita) mai ka Honua.
ʻO kahi alakaʻi, hoʻokele, a me ka ʻōnaehana hoʻokele, e hana pū ana me nā algorithm i kapa ʻia ʻo Small-body Maneuvering Autonomous Real Time Navigation (SMART Nav), e hiki ai i ka mokulele DART ke ʻike a hoʻokaʻawale i waena o nā asteroid ʻelua. A laila e kuhikuhi ka ʻōnaehana i ka mokulele i ka Dimorphos. E hana ʻia kēia kaʻina hana i loko o hoʻokahi hola o ka hopena.
Hoʻokele ʻo Johns Hopkins APL i ka misionari DART no NASA's Planetary Defence Coordination Office ma ke ʻano he papahana o ka Planetary Missions Program Office. Hāʻawi ʻo NASA i ke kākoʻo no ka misionari mai kekahi mau kikowaena, me ka Jet Propulsion Laboratory ma Southern California, Goddard Space Flight Center ma Greenbelt, Maryland, Johnson Space Center ma Houston, Glenn Research Center ma Cleveland, a me Langley Research Center ma Hampton, Virginia. Mālama ʻia ka hoʻokuʻu ʻana e NASA's Launch Services Program, i hoʻokumu ʻia ma ka Kennedy Space Center ma Florida. ʻO SpaceX ka mea hoʻolako lawelawe no ka misionari DART.
