WATCH REPLAY: SpaceX Launch of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Set From Vandenberg Wednesday at 1:21 a.m. ET

WATCH LIVE: SpaceX is targeting Wednesday November 24 for Falcon 9’s launch of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission to an interplentary transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The instantaneous launch window is at 1:21 a.m. ET.

VANDENBERG SPACE FOR STATION, CALIFORNIA – SpaceX is targeting Tuesday, November 23 for Falcon 9’s launch of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission to an interplentary transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

The instantaneous launch window is at 1:21 a.m. ET.

This will be the third flight for this Falcon 9’s first stage booster, which previously supported launch of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich and a Starlink mission.

Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage will land on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship, which will be located in the Pacific Ocean.

DART is humanity’s first planetary defense test mission to see if intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid is an effective way to change its course, should an Earth-threatening asteroid be discovered in the future.

A live webcast of this mission will begin about 15 minutes prior to liftoff.

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