DART Mission photos came from NASA's first use of Argotec microsatellite

DART Mission photos came from NASA's first use of Argotec microsatellite

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Turin, Italy (SPX) Oct 06, 2022

When NASA's DART spacecraft successfully hit the asteroid Dimorphos, the closest cameras that captured the impact were on LICIACube, a microsatellite built by Argotec. The next closest cameras were telescopes on Earth, 7 million miles away. Argotec Mission Control Centre in Turin, Italy, received the first pictures from LICIACube (Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging Asteroids) a few hours af

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