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2022 was a year of many satellites - whether we watched them, they watched us, or cast their cameras to space, there was plenty to see.

On September 26 of this year, the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft slammed into the moonlet/asteroid Dimorphos and vaporized itself into an expanding plume of atomized debris. Fifteen days prior, DART had released LICIAcube - the Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging Asteroids – which was hitchhiking along for the ride. However, LICIAcube wasn’t a…

The first images from the cubesat capturing the aftermath of the DART spacecraft asteroid impact have been received.

The first images of DARTs crash into asteroid Dimorphos show the impact kicked up a lot of debris.

The LUKE and LEIA cameras on the LICIACube are ready to capture the DART spacecraft's scheduled crash into the asteroid Dimorphos.

NASA says DART’s planetary defense & asteroid collision test would help earth deflect an asteroid, should one ever happen in the future.

Watch NASA's DART spacecraft crash into the asteroid Dimorphos as part of a planetary defence test from 7:30am AEST, on 27 September / 5:30pm US EDT on 26 September.

Asteroid Didymos is not at risk of hitting Earth, but NASA is testing whether slamming into it with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft can throw it off course.

The DART spacecrafts tiny companion is ready to photograph a brand-new impact site Monday night (Sept. 26).

The cameras documenting NASA’s DART mission are named LUKE and LEIA.