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One week ahead of the impact by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft with Dimorphos, the moon of binary asteroid (65803) Didymos, representatives of the European Space Agency’s Hera mission, the Italian LICIACube mission and DART will present a preview for the media on the mission and planned investigation of the crater resulting from DART’s kinetic impact.

Speakers:

- Michael Küppers, Hera Project Scientist, European Space Astronomy Centre
- Andy Rivkin, DART Investigation Team Lead, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
- Stavro Ivanovski, LICIACube Team, INAF Astronomical Observatory of Trieste
- Adriano Campo Bagatin, Modelling of Dimorphos, Universidad de Alicante.